Subject: Detect and bounce back unwelcomed mails

From: [email-masked] (liaos)
Date: 19 Jul 1994 04:57:49 GMT

I'd like to know if there is a way to detect incoming mails and then 
bounce back those I don't want?  Someone I know keeps getting some 
annoying mails from her friend and after failing to stop the person from 
sending mails, she wants me to post it for her to see if there is a way 
to do so in pine?

Thanks for your help.

Y.L.

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 22:40:20 +0800 (TPE)

> sending mails, she wants me to post it for her to see if there is a way 

	The best thing you can do is to get "filter" from the elm
distribution, or procmail, or deliver, or one of the other various
filter programs.  Then, you can detect incoming mail from the offending
(or is that offensive ?) person and direct it to its proper location...
/dev/null.  Chances are you will find that these programs can be of
more value than just dumping annonying email. 

	Good luck...

			Ed

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From: [email-masked] (Bill Campbell)
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 08:07:58 -0700 (PDT)

> sending mails, she wants me to post it for her to see if there is a way 
This isn't really a job for a Mail User Agent (MUA) like pine, but for
a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) such as Chip Salzenberg's deliver.  An
MDA is a program that examines incoming mail and determines whether to
put it in the user's INBOX, deliver it so one or more other addresses,
drop the mail....  I use it to automatically archive incoming mail by
year, month, system, and user, to check mailing list traffic for
duplicates before forwarding, and to assign incoming email for support
to the appropriate person.

Deliver looks for a $HOME/.deliver script which may be any executable
program (mine are in perl).  This is invoked by putting
"|/usr/lib/mail/deliver username" in the .forward file.

Bill
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