Subject: Need help: can PINE reject letters from A sender?

From: Christopher Steven Williams <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 15:05:25 -0800

Can PINE reject letters from specific senders.  Is this a procmail 
problem?  If it is, I would really appreciate some info on the matter.

Thanks!

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 08:34:14 -0500

> problem?  If it is, I would really appreciate some info on the matter.

    Pine cannot do this, but yes, procmail certainly can.  Good
procmail documentation (if any exists) can show you how, and there is
a procmail mailing list (unfortunately I do not have the address at
hand).  If nothing else, you can set up procmail recipes to have mail
from specific senders delivered to /dev/null, although I have heard
that this is not the most effcient way to do it.

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From: Ben Norwood <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:16:38 +0000

>problem?  If it is, I would really appreciate some info on the matter.

On the Uni of Wales Aberystwyth's OSF systems, there is a file called
.mailfilter in the mail direcotry which serves as an on-delivery sorting
device.

if (!delivered && $(from)==/[email-masked]/)
{
        delivered=TRUE;
}

Add this to your .mailfilter (if you have one) and you will NOT recieve
any mails from [email-masked]
 Obviously you can edit the address.

And whilst you're in the .mailfilter, if you want to sort incoming mail
into different folders:

if (!delivered && $(from)==/[email-masked]/)
{
unixfile "mail/zyx";
}

This will put mail from [email-masked] into folder zyx

if (!delivered)
{
unixfile "mail/INBOX";
}

Keep this, this tells all other mail to go into the inbox.

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