Subject: Mail bombs - how to avoid?

From: [email-masked] (Steven Williams)
Date: 8 Feb 1995 08:06:13 +1100

Hi Everyone,

I'm being constantly mail bomed, and would like to set up a function in 
pine to delete or return any mail sent to me from an address. I know 
about the .forward command, is there one for this sort of thing?

Thanks in advance,

Steven.

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From: [email-masked] (David Edwards)
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 95 20:57:06 GMT

> about the .forward command, is there one for this sort of thing?

Firstly, I'd ask the question, "Why are you being mail bombed?". Then, I 
would suggest that you report the person that is doing it to their system 
administrator. If you set your .forward file to pipe your mail into a 
program such as "filter" (from the Elm distribution), you could bounce 
such mail from a specific person back to them.

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan Chen)
Date: 10 Feb 1995 16:32:31 +1300

>about the .forward command, is there one for this sort of thing?

Get your hands on procmail and install it (if it hasn't already been installed
on your box). Have all your mail piped to procmail (ie ~/.forward file contains
"| /usr/local/bin/procmail") and using appropriate rules to filter your
mail in ~/.procmailrc, you can sort/bounce/discard your mail according to
sender, subject, mail-text and other criteria.
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From: "Stephen R. Wylie" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 15:27:33 -30000

On 10 Feb 1995, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> Date: 10 Feb 1995 16:32:31 +1300
> From: Jonathan Chen <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: Mail bombs - how to avoid?
> 
I have found a version of procmail that will not successfully compile on 
linux. does anyone know of a version or port of procmail for linux?

thanx in advance.

srw
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From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 08:47:58 +0000 (GMT)

> linux. does anyone know of a version or port of procmail for linux?

Get the latest version of procmail - it compiled "out of the box" on my 
Linux system.  You can get the latest version from:

        ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (137.226.225.3)

as (g)zipped tar file:     /pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.gz       
as compressed tar file:    /pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.Z        

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