Subject: help

From: Elizabeth Barrell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 14:31:57 -0500 (CDT)

There's a few addresses from which I do not want to receive mail, and I
was hoping there was a way to permanently block incoming messages from
them.  Is there?  Can anybody help?  

Thanks

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From: Jonas Anderson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:19:50 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Elizabeth Barrell wrote:
	
	You should check out Procmail, it does all kinds of
	filtering.

> them.  Is there?  Can anybody help?  
	Jonas
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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 06 Jul 1998 22:08:56 +0200

* Elizabeth Barrell <[email-masked]> writes:

> There's a few addresses from which I do not want to receive
> mail, and I was hoping there was a way to permanently block
> incoming messages from them.  Is there?  Can anybody help?

Sure. Just read the Pine FAQ (called QandA) to find the URL for Nancy
McGough's fabulous filtering mail FAQ. All the answers are in there.

Something else: please use a meaningful subject - "help" describes 99% 
of all requests sent here.

Robin

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From: Jim Sander <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 16:52:23 -0400 (EDT)

> them.  Is there?  Can anybody help?  

   If you're root on your server, this shouldn't be too difficult to do-
just set up mail to "whatever@yourdomain" to point to either a junk mail
account that you periodically clean out or to /dev/null.

   If you're not root, or you otherwise don't want to mess with that kind
of thing, set up a .forward to the dummy account for each account you want
to block from receiving mail. (won't work if you're trying to keep users
from modifying this) (can probably even direct the mail into /dev/null too
although I've never tried it)

   If absolute worst comes to worst, simply create a soft link to
/dev/null in the mail spool directory corresponding to that account name.
What comes in won't stay in for very long.

   There are probly other ways too.

   Procmail is cool- and definitely worth learning, but probably not the
tool to do this job depending upon what you really want to do.

-=Jim=-

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From: Jim Sander <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 16:54:29 -0400 (EDT)

OK- I totally blew it and misinterpreted that question... Ignore
everything I said in it. Procmail actually *is* the tool for the job- I
had the work order upside-down. ;)

-=Jim=-