Subject: Re: Filtering (was: Re: 4.05 wierdness)

From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:05:57 +0200

Quoting Ian Hall-Beyer ([email-masked]):
> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Carmen Dennis wrote:
> 
> > Does anybody know of a way, using PINE, to only accept messages within a
> > certain size limit OR how to filter out messages from a specified
> > recipient.
> 
> AFAIK, Pine does not do this natively. This is the domain of mail processors
> such as procmail. I can't remember the URL off the top of my head, but there
> is a good FAQ on setting up filters using procmail.

Actually, it should be done by the MTA, eg fetchmail, not by the MDA.

Robin

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Robin S. Socha
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From: Ian Hall-Beyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 02:39:59 -0600 (MDT)

> Actually, it should be done by the MTA, eg fetchmail, not by the MDA.

Well, that would depend on the type of filtering you want to do.
Spam/Domain blocking would definitely be done by the MTA. A user who wants
to sort his mail out is more the domain of utilities like fetchmail, or in
some cases, the client itself (but not pine).

-Ian

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From: Lea <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:15:10 -0600 (MDT)

> AFAIK, Pine does not do this natively. This is the domain of mail
> processors such as procmail. I can't remember the URL off the top of my
> head, but there is a good FAQ on setting up filters using procmail.

What is the URL for Nancy McGeogh's (sp?) page on using Elm's mail filter
for pine?  

Lea
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From: "Colin J. Raven" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:03:37 -0700

Point your browser of choice at:
http://www.ii.com/internet/faqs/launchers/mail/filtering-faq/

HTH & Regards,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven
Operations Manager, HDS Lab, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA  |  Harrison, NY
http://linus.uhmc.sunysb.edu/~colin

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