Subject: Re: A good mail filter?

From: [email-masked] (Michael Fuhr)
Date: 1 Nov 1996 16:00:47 -0700

[email-masked] (Scott Matteson) writes:

>Does anyone know of a good, reliable mail filtering program that can be 
>configured to reject e-mail from a specific e-mail address or addresses?  
>I've attempted to use procmail but it's worthless and I was wondering 
>if there's something out there that does the job simply and efficiently.  
>Thanks in advance for any suggestions-

Ok, I'll take the bait.  What do you find worthless about procmail?
Perhaps if you told us what the problem is you'd get a useful
answer.
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From: [email-masked] (Tina Marie Holmboe)
Date: 2 Nov 1996 01:46:27 GMT

{ [email-masked] (Scott Matteson) }

> Thanks in advance for any suggestions-

  A suggestion might be to take a look at

           http://www.ee.umd.edu/medlab/filter/filter.html

  "Information Filtering Resources"

  As for 'procmail', well, YMMV - personally I wrote my own filter when
I found procmail to be a) written in C, b) *huge*, and c) employing
rule-files that were *almost* incomprehensible. But again, YMMV.

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From: [email-masked] (Peter Wyzlic)
Date: 2 Nov 1996 09:40:07 GMT

>Thanks in advance for any suggestions-

Have you really looked at the following man pages :
procmail (1)         - autonomous mail processor
procmailex (5)       - procmail rcfile examples
procmailrc (5)       - procmail rcfile
procmailsc (5)       - procmail weighted scoring techique

Especially procmailex is full of useful examples. It took only one hour or
two to read the documentation, to understand it (:-), and to write a
procmailrc. Here it does what you want it to do and it does it's work
flawlessly. BTW there is a mailing list for procmail questions.

\bye
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