Subject: Re: Kill sender

From: Derrick Green <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 12:23:27 -0600

On 14 Mar 1997, Torbjoern Maehle wrote:

> I wonder if someone can instruct me in a easy and good way to
> remove/autodelete msges from a certain person. Mailing lists tend
> to be frequented by a fair number of sutch persons. If this theeme
> is described in a faq file or something, I would be happy to be
> told where to find it. 
> 
> Hope this will not anoy anyone, as I believe this Q might be asked
> often. 

You're right.  It is asked often, but we've all got to start
somewhere. 

The answer to this question is dependant upon which operating system
you are using.  Since most Pine users are on Unix boxes, I'll go
with that assumption.

Get procmail and learn how to use it by reading all the man pages.
Yes, it's a tedious process, and the program is not overly
user-friendly, but it is *very* powerful.  With it you can easily
sort out people on mailing lists that are not worth reading.  You
can send them directly to /dev/null (the UNIX trashcan).

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Derrick Green
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Bill D)
Date: 16 Mar 1997 21:12:16 GMT

In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.970314121910.11345K-100000@exupub> in newsgroup
comp.mail.pine, Derrick Green <[email-masked]> wrote: 

>> remove/autodelete msges from a certain person. 

>user-friendly, but it is *very* powerful.  

man procmail
man procmailrc
man procmailex
man procmailsc

should tell you what you need to know.

That said, here's a simple recipe for routing messages from a specfic
person ([email-masked]) to /dev/null.

#
# billd's procmail file
#

# much deleted, obviously.

:0
[email-masked]
/dev/null

Needless to say, it's useful to do some sort of logging.  Also, procmail
recipes often take some tinkering before they're right.  Route copies of
stuff you want to trash to a folder at first instead, so that you don't
inadvertently trash mail you want to keep.

Bill

-- 
[email-masked] [email-masked]  (Bill D) "Yesterday, apropos of nothing,
one friend said to me 'Do you ever have days where you just want to get
everyone you know together in one place, have them all take off their
clothes, and let nature take its course?'" --Susan Groppi

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From: [email-masked] (Frans ter Borg)
Date: 15 Mar 1997 22:57:11 GMT

M. Evans ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Same question as Torbjoem (see below):

: How do I set up pine, so that it does NOT ACCEPT or DELETES EMAIL from
: certain addresses / users / domains, not limited to listserv or usenet
: subscribers?

: I would prefer to have the messages be bumped back to them, but simple
: deletion on arrival is good as well.

[...]

If you would have read some of the articles in this newsgroup you would 
have known, that Pine does not have a feature like that. You will have to 
use an external program like procmail to do that. Off course Pine can be 
used to view the contents of the mail split into subfolders by procmail 
or anything alike.

Frans
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