Subject: How do you....

From: alisa arlene anderson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 11:37:22 -0500 (EST)

I was wondering if there was a way to block messages coming from a certain
sender? And if there is, could you please tell me how to do it?

Alisa

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From: Steve Witt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 13:18:56 -0800 (PST)

> sender? And if there is, could you please tell me how to do it?

I do not believe there is any way within pine to do this as pine gives you
whatever is in your mailbox(s).  This is in the realm of mail filtering,
which is not too hard to do, depending upon your host machine.  If you are
on a PC, then I don't know how you do it.  

If you are on a Unix host then there are a couple of ways.  I would
recommend 'procmail'.  procmail allows you to filter mail in all sorts of
ways, most usually it is used to put your incoming mail in different
folders by subject.  You would then enable the 'folder-collections'
feature of pine to access these separately.  However, once you can filter
mail on an arbitrary header string, you can do almost anything you want,
like deleting mail from a specific address or domain, etc.  Many people
use this to filter out spam.  One reference to this is
http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/.

Hope this helps...

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PairGain Technologies, Inc.