Re: Filtering Email to Delete Without Using POP Filters

2003-08-14 Thread jude dashiell
Any number of ways exist to do what you want in Linux. If you use pine, under setup and rules you'll find filters and you want to add a filter. Then name the filter and fill in your criteria. Save it and exit and the e-mail is gone. There's procmail but it like sendmail is a major bitch in terms

Re: Filtering Email to Delete Without Using POP Filters

2003-08-14 Thread Peter Edstrom
Oh, that "ie" should really be an "eg". All these acronyms. :) To fill out this message, I give you some related links from my bookmarks: Procmail Mini-Tutorial: Automated Mail Handling http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue14/procmail.html A Plan for Spam http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html These ar

Re: Filtering Email to Delete Without Using POP Filters

2003-08-14 Thread Frank Roberts - SOTL
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Re: Filtering Email to Delete Without Using POP Filters

2003-08-14 Thread Peter
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Filtering Email to Delete Without Using POP Filters

2003-08-11 Thread Frank Roberts - SOTL
Hi All Using Kmail is there a way to set a filter such that any mail from a particular source is deleted automatically. I an aware that this can be done with pop filters but that takes place before the mail is downloaded. This also requires a good bit more knowledge of what the email contents

Re: Filtering Email to Delete Without Using POP Filters

2003-08-10 Thread Peter Edstrom
Using procmail is a very good way of handling mail filtering, in my opinion. You can easily combine it with a spam filter (ie. bmf; take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bmf/ for more info) to limit the amount of spam you receive. I think setting up new filters is not that a big deal, if