OT (technical stuff): Re: What can be done? was Re: To Raymond (re: Uusisuom)

Hi!

Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> writes:
> Is there any way of blocking messages comming from Conlang?  I'm using
> Pine, and haven't been able to find a way to block messages from
> there.  I don't really like having to do this - but it's either that
> or set to nomail for the duration of the Auxlang invasions.
You can use procmail if that is installed.  I use it for automatically
putting *all* mailing list stuff into a seperate folder.

Put the follow line into ~/.forward:

"|exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-"

(If procmail is installed in /usr/bin/procmail, that is)

and create the  following ~/.procmailrc:

--->snip<---------------------------------------------------------------
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail           #you'd better make sure it exists
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from        #recommended

:0H
*^From:.*email@address\.of\.someone\.you\.want\.to\.plonk
/dev/null

--->snip<---------------------------------------------------------------

The `:0H' means: search the header (you can search the body by using
`:0B' or `:0HB' to search both.

All following lines beginning with * are regular expressions matching
lines in the header (therefore, there are many backslashes in front of
dots).

/dev/null is the target folder, i.e., the unrecyclable Unix dust bin.

Of course, many entries like this one starting with :0H are allowed in
.procmailrc.  E.g. for storing conlang in a special file, I use:

--->snip<--------------------------------------------------------------

:0H
*^Sender:.*CONLANG
$HOME/Mail/conlang.ml

--->snip<--------------------------------------------------------------

All mails not matched by any entry in the file go your normal mail
folder.

Oh yes: be sure to use test mails to see whether it works.  The system
admistrators usually get very upset of it doesn't and instead runs
berserk!

:-)


HTH you preventing further headaches. :-)

**Henrik

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