Regular Expressions. WAS: Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-05 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
! Schwebel --- Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:20:33 -0800 (PST) Paul Schwebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Could you explain what regex's in the SMTP'S configuration file is? Thanks, -Paul He can be taught! Schwebel Paul, regex is a geek-speak

Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-04 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
As far as mail sorting, I've found getmail works well and is easier to set up than procmail. You can then feed mail from getmail into a spam filtering program, but I think you'd have to do that with procmail as well. -Paul Well, how did I get here? Schwebel --- Matt Koppelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] SPAM FILTER

2001-12-04 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
--- Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, have you looked into setting up some regex's in the SMTP's configuration file. This is one good way to start taking a bite out of all that crap they're sending at your mailservers. snip Could you explain what regex's in the SMTP'S

[newbie] Sorting mail, again...skinky, are you there?

2001-11-26 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
I am _still_ trying to sort mail so that my wife's mail goes to her inbox and mine goes to my inbox. I was going to use a fetchmail/procmail setup, but never got it quite working when skinky told me about getmail. Getmail setup was a snap, and it works as you mentioned, skinky. BUT, I have one

[newbie] Configuring a LAN card

2001-11-21 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
the card with DOS test utilities and it seems to be fine. The IRQ is set at 10 and the I/O address is 210. What could I try next? Thanks, -Paul Schwebel __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http

Re: [newbie] motherboard suggestion for stable system

2001-11-16 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
in a public school environment (Netware, not Linux). I prefer the Dells. My .02, -Paul Schwebel, Lab Facilitator San Dieguito Union High School District --- Paul Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Jim. Your reccomendations have been very helpful. I've been going over several options

Re: [newbie] motherboard suggestion for stable system

2001-11-16 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
are more robust/faster. A RAID 5 array (you need 3 hard drives, minimum) will give you better performance than simple mirroring, as well as uninterrupted fault-tolerance if one drive fails. -Paul Schwebel, Lab Facilitator San Dieguito Union High School District --- Paul Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] How do I sync my Visor - USB (was: Info on Syncing Visor (USB)}

2001-11-03 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
I installed jpilot from the cd. It looks like it requires some kind of /dev/... entry in the preferences. So, I went looking for a ttyUSB... kind of entry, but there are NONE in my /dev folder. I did some research and found that 8.1 defaults to a new devfs system that's is, as I understand it,

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail

2001-11-03 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
Thanks. I will let you know the results... =Paul --- Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, sorry for the delay... On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Paul Schwebel wrote: Ralph, I can see three possible approaches. Approach 1: The one you wrote here makes sense, but I'm not snip

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail

2001-11-03 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
Yeah, but now...it's personal! ;-) -Paul --- Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, really to make things simple, why not just drop her old address (just not use it), create a yahoo mail address for her, and fetch that account using pop? This may save you a hell of a lot of time and

Re: [newbie] What I did wrong

2001-11-02 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
:05, Paul Schwebel wrote: | | Yes, this is helpful to me, too. Thanks. The questions | | that occur to me are as follows: | | | | You wrote: snip __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Info on Syncing Visor (USB)

2001-11-02 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
Thanks, I will check the CD and let you know if I got it to work. -Paul but I don't WANT to RTFM! Schwebel --- shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jpilot, used, works, requiered no changes that i recall (in other words there may have been, but minor. kpilot is reported to handle usb in the

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail

2001-11-01 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
--- Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, quaylar wrote: So you better not run /etc/procmailrc! root privileges!!! Just make a simple one and copy to other users... much better than having a security 'hole'! Then, how do I get this to work? Say I

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail

2001-11-01 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
it? I haven't much experience with symlinks, so I'm not sure how the permissions would work. However this ends up, I've been learning alot. Thanks. -Paul --- Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Paul Schwebel wrote: Then, how do I get this to work? Say I put

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and procmail

2001-11-01 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
No, I think I get it. Right now I have fetchmail get our mail. Then, you're saying that I can set up a procmail recipe so that when I get the mail, it sends wife-specific mail to her, and when she opens the mail, it sents husband-specific mail to me. Right? --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In

Re: [newbie] cool looking themes don't work (GNOME, Enlightenment, M8.1)

2001-10-31 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
Thank you! I've been wanting to know the relationship between GTK+ themes and window manager themes. That brings up one more thing I'd like to understand: I know what a window manager is, and how it works with X to manage desktop graphics. Where to the desktop environments fit into this (GNOME

Re: [newbie] Sorting mail

2001-10-26 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
Thanks, I will be working on fetchmail this weekend. Yes, pobox.com works very well. -Paul --- Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Paul Schwebel wrote: It's a simple task if you use fetchmail! It will fetch all and every mail and distribute

[newbie] Flash and Shockwave

2001-10-26 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
Yesterday, I was trying to show of the 'better' OS (Mandrake 8.1) to my daughter, who is a major Harry Potter fan. We went to the Warner Brother's site (http://www.harrypotter.com) to 'enroll' in Hogwarts and go to the Quidditch practice pages. But I kept getting told that I had to install Flash

Re: [newbie] Flash and Shockwave

2001-10-26 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
Did you try the area where you practice Quidditch? The site worked fine for me, too, until I went to Seeker practice I just fired up Mozilla (running MDK8.0) and that works just A-OK on the site. Paul __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great

Re: [newbie] Flash and Shockwave

2001-10-26 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
Did you actually go into the area I mentioned? The site worked fine until I went to practice Quidditch, and that's where I ran into problems. --- Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:52:53 -0400 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to Paul Schwebel's words,

Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga continues

2001-10-23 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
. -Paul --- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 October 2001 10:13, Paul Schwebel opined on the topic: Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga continues Dave, Thanks for the clarification on my questions. Earthlink/Mindspring

Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga SOLVED!

2001-10-23 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
, everything. I set up my login and my wife's login. Everything looks good. Now I can post the newbie group about something else! Thanks, -Paul Schwebel __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com Want to buy

[newbie] Sorting mail

2001-10-23 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
Okay, now that I have my DSL connection up and running, I can get to the problem I _really_ wanted to ask about! This may be a simple case of RTFM, but if someone could point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. I use an email forwarding service, pobox.com. If you're not familiar with

Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga continues

2001-10-22 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
Dave, Thanks for the clarification on my questions. Earthlink/Mindspring has 3 nameservers for their Mindspring customers (of which I am one). They are: 207.69.188.185 207.69.188.186 207.69.188.187 I use the first two in my resolv.conf files and in the rp-pppoe setup. I can ping these numbers.

[newbie] DSL and 8.1, the saga continues

2001-10-21 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
I'm still trying to connect my Mandrake 8.1 box to the Internet via an Earthlink/Mindspring DSL connection. I've gone over the various suggestions I've gotten from this list and others, done some reading and reconfiguring. I'm not there yet, but I'm closer. Here's what's going on: I'm using the

[newbie] DSL and 8.1

2001-10-19 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
I'm using Mandrake 8.1 and thouroughly enjoy it. I'm trying to set my up DSL connection. I have a hardware connection from my NIC(eth0) to the DSL modem on a standalone Linux box. I'm a bit confused by the set up process using the Mandrake Control Center. It detects my NIC (3com 3c90x) without a

Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1

2001-10-19 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
--- Dave Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 19 October 2001 12:17, Paul Schwebel I'm trying to set my up DSL connection. I have a hardware connection from my NIC(eth0) to the DSL modem on a standalone Linux box. Is the DSL modem an external modem/router/bridge

Re: [newbie] DSL and 8.1

2001-10-19 Per discussione Paul Schwebel
for adsl-setupand adsl-start. -Paul Rodríguez Thanks, will do. I'm wondering if I have to delete the LAN settings I already have (I have tried several different configurations options, so I think both ADSL and LAN are configured). On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 13:17, Paul Schwebel wrote: trying