Subject: Blocking mails

From: Anand Virani <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:12:27 -0600 (CST)

Hello, 

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to block mails from coming from a 
certain address. For instance, if I don't want to get any emails from
the address [email-masked], the mails will be bounced back to "abc" 
whenever "abc" sends me emails.

Thanks in advance.

Anand

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Anand Virani
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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 18:47:04 +0200 (CEST)

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On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Anand Virani wrote:

  >certain address. 
  
- From "FAQ.where":

     Pine does not perform delivery filtering; that is the function of other
     programs, such as (on Unix hosts) "procmail" or "mailagent."
     For details on selection and configuration of such programs, see the
     Filtering Mail FAQ (by Nancy McGough) at one of the following
     locations:

	http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/filtering-faq/
	       faq.html
	http://www.smartpages.com/faqs/mail/filtering-faq/faq.html
        ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/pub/ii/internet/filtering_mail_faq.txt
        ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/filtering-faq

  >For instance, if I don't want to get any emails from the address
  >[email-masked], the mails will be bounced back to "abc" whenever "abc"
  >sends me emails.

Bouncing is nice but not very useful. Either send those mails to /dev/null
or create a kill-file that does something else with them. Remember to test
this file *thoroughly* before using it *blush*. With procmail, the following
should do:

:0:
* ^From.*rcummins
/dev/null

to filter all mail from a certain loser whose email address contains the
appropriate characters.

Otherwise, check the procmail man pages and mailing list (which is
*really* good). 

Later,
Robin

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