Subject: Re: -Question: Pine 3.93 and filtering ?

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 20:14:25 -0400

On 15 Jul 1996, D. Wilson wrote:

> With Pine 3.93, Regarding:
>   1) Undesired email from a know address
> 
> Can a filter be installed in PINE 3.39 BEFORE email
> arrives ?  An end user customizable filter.
>     OR
> Is there an add-on program that works with PINE 3.93
> that will achieve this? [...]

    If you have a World Wide Web browser, browse my home page and
follow the link to Nancy McGough's pages.  She has plenty of
information on mail filtering with Pine.  

    (This may be one of the most repetitive questions on this
newsgroup.  I wish we could get it into an FAQ somewhere that
people could actually learn about and read.)

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (D. Wilson)
Date: 15 Jul 1996 12:05:24 GMT

Please reply directly to:
[email-masked]
    and the news group if you wish.

that will achieve this?

For example, accept all email
    *.*

EXCEPT from the following addresses:
    [email-masked]
    [email-masked]
    ....

This filter would not allow any undesired email:
The sender would get this kind of response ...

Mail not sent: <[email-masked]>... User unknown

or this kind of message ...

   ----- The following addresses had delivery problems -----
<[email-masked]>  (unrecoverable error)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 <[email-masked]>... Host unknown
 (Name server: host.domain.io: host not found)

Thanks in advance for any help.
Cheers!