Subject: Blocking e-mail from a particular address

From: SANJAY AGRAWAL <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 17:29:31 +0530 (IST)

Hi!

I am having a problem with my e-mail account here.One particular person is
sending me e-mails again and again.How can I block mails from this
particular address.Moreover can I automatically bounce it back to the
sender. Please help.
Thanks 
Sanjay 

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From: "Ed Greshko" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 20:33:23 +0800

> particular address.Moreover can I automatically bounce it back to the

Don't automatically bounce mail back to the sender.  Just because the sender
is obnoxious there is no reason you should follow.

The best thing is to get procmail (maybe your site already has it..) and
filter your incoming mail.  For that mail you dislike you can save in
/dev/null.

Oh, as for the location of procmail......you can do a Web search as the
source location as escaped me at the moment.

Regards,
Ed

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From: SANJAY AGRAWAL <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:06:52 +0530 (IST)

Dear Ed,
Can I do it without procmail?This is because I am a student in an
undergraduate college and I do not have the superuser permissions to
download and install procmail.(It is not here).
Thanks for your reply.
Sanjay

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From: Søren Larsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:44:07 +0200 (MEST)

> source location as escaped me at the moment.

This link contains useful information about procmail, including a link
to the FTP site:

    http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/

Søren

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From: Realcosmo <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 15:23:20 +0200 (CEST)

> particular address.Moreover can I automatically bounce it back to the

If you have installed procmail, make a file called '.procmailrc'.

===============.procmailrc==============
:0
* [email-masked]
 /dev/null

or even

:0
* [email-masked]
! [email-masked]
===============.procmailrc==============

The first entry will move the mail to /dev/null, the second one will send
it back to the emailaddress that is given.
But read the 'procmailrc' man-page for more details...

 Cya,
   Daniele

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From: Ken Woods <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:15:56 -0400 (EDT)

eh.....
You don't need root to install procmail

dl, compile, and put it in your own bin directory.

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