Subject: Re: mail bombs

From: "Solange Didier" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 18:09:07 PDT

Concerning the comments made by an awful lot of you about the mail bomb thingie, 
I've been mail-bombed on PINE before and there was nothing I could do about it. 
In the space of ten minutes, about 200 mails came through. That wasn't a lot, 
but when I collected them off of a different e-mailing program it took me over 
by just enough time to clean out my small bank account. But I do have a couple 
questions here:

How can I "block" someone's message, as in just not take it?

Is there a way to "refuse" certain parties mail? 

Can I set PINE up to ignore certain e-mail addresses entirely?

And a non-mail-bomb question, can I save mail from PINE onto a floppy disk?

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From: Stephen Walla <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:57:45 -0400 (EDT)

>And a non-mail-bomb question, can I save mail from PINE onto a floppy

Yes, you can.
Use the 'E' export command to save the selected message to a file.
Then, use any FTP software to transfer it from your account to your floppy
disk.

Stephen Walla

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 04:36:50 +0200 (CEST)

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  >Can I set PINE up to ignore certain e-mail addresses entirely?

Check procmail or filter. Since you got Windows programs at home, you know
what to do there.

  >And a non-mail-bomb question, can I save mail from PINE onto a floppy disk?

Provided the floppy is mounted on your VAX, yes. Then e(xport) will do, as
well as cp <filename> /dev/fd0 on the CL.
Otherwise, check if you have the mtools installed an are allowed to use
them.

Later,
Robin

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 09:46:59 -0400

On 7 Apr 1997, Solange Didier wrote:

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> Can I set PINE up to ignore certain e-mail addresses entirely?

    Pine by itself cannot do any of these things.  It was not designed
to.  You want to do something called mail filtering, which hooks into
the mail delivery process before Pine ever gets into the picture.  
There is no single way to do this.  In part it depends on what
operating system you are using.  If you have a World Wide Browser,
browse my home page, follow the link to Nancy McGough's pages, follow a
couple of links in, and you will find ample information on mail
filtering.

> And a non-mail-bomb question, can I save mail from PINE onto a floppy disk?

    Yes.  Someone else already answered this question.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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