Subject: Kill

From: EXCALIBUR <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 10:17:28 -0700 (MST)

Is there anyway to kill or block incoming mail from a specific address?
Somehow my address has been caught in an endless loop from the same 
address and I am getting thousands od long letters. I am un able to 
contact the source address of these letters. So can I simply block mail 
from that address somehow?
Thanks
J Tautges

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 19:14:00 -0500

> from that address somehow?

    Pine as such has no killfile or message blocking capability (unless
it's in the brand-new version 3.92, which I don't have yet).  You have
to use some program which preprocesses the mail before Pine gets hold
of it.  On Unix systems, possibly the two most commonly used programs
are procmail and filter.  (If you are on Unix and have a Web browser,
you can start from my home page and thread your way into Nancy
McGough's pages on mail filtering.)

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From: Ben Norwood <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 15:50:21 +0000

:Is there anyway to kill or block incoming mail from a specific address?
:Somehow my address has been caught in an endless loop from the same
:address and I am getting thousands od long letters. I am un able to
:contact the source address of these letters. So can I simply block mail
:from that address somehow?

Its impossible within Pine itself, but it is possible to block mail
within the system.

I don't know if this method will work with your system, but on the system
at Aberystwtyh University, you can create/edit a file called .mailfilter,
which is located in the directory before 'mail':

For your purposes create the following lines:

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

    Blocks all mail from [email-masked]

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

   Tells where to stick mail from any other address.

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