Subject: Return to Sender - How ?

From: [email-masked] (Glenn Hawkins)
Date: 10 Dec 1995 19:13:17 GMT

Just as one can create a ".forward" file to auto-forward ones e-mail to
another address, can one create a ".retrun-to-sender" file to auto-return
unwanted e-mail from a specific e-mail addressee?

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From: [email-masked] (Mark Galbraith)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 01:13:09 GMT

>>>>> "Sven" == Sven Guckes <[email-masked]> writes:

>> unwanted e-mail from a specific e-mail addressee?

Sven> No.  At least I have never heard of it yet.  ;-)

How about a .forward with "[email-masked]".  That should
certainly cause a bounce.

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From: [email-masked] (TRAN Huu Da)
Date: 12 Dec 1995 16:30:11 GMT

Once, Glenn Hawkins ([email-masked]) speculated about:
| Just as one can create a ".forward" file to auto-forward ones e-mail to
| another address, can one create a ".retrun-to-sender" file to auto-return
| unwanted e-mail from a specific e-mail addressee?

You would need to filter the mail...
Try:	% man procmail		(could compile it yourself)
	% man filter		(comes in ELM package)

There's also a FAQ about mail-filtering posted here...

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From: Anthony Sirtautas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 07:59:19 +0300 (GMT+0300)

I have seen a large number of questions having to do with the routing of 
mail.  The best way to handle this is to use "procmail".

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From: [email-masked] (Hugh McIntyre)
Date: 21 Dec 1995 14:15:23 GMT

|> >>>>> "Sven" == Sven Guckes <[email-masked]> writes:
|> 
|> Sven> [email-masked] (Glenn Hawkins) writes:
|> >> Just as one can create a ".forward" file to auto-forward ones e-mail to
|> >> another address, can one create a ".retrun-to-sender" file to auto-return
|> >> unwanted e-mail from a specific e-mail addressee?
|> 
|> Sven> No.  At least I have never heard of it yet.  ;-)

Use procmail, or any one of the other mail filtering methods.  Since this
is getting posted to the ELM group, ELM's "filter" program would also work.

Using this, select messages from the unwanted sender and make it run a
program to mail back a "go away" message.

Hugh.

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