Subject: Re: PINE-INFO digest 770

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 12:33:21 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 5 May 2000 [email-masked] wrote:
>On Thu, 4 May 2000, Satya wrote:
>
>> On May 4, 2000 at 04:55, [email-masked] wrote:
>> 
>> >I'm sorry about the misstakes in my previous post.  What I meant to say
>> >was: how do I tell pine to filter out all posts from a certain
>> >address.  thanks andy
>> 
>> That's a job for procmail.
>
>True - procmail would do a better job.  But you can do it with Pine 4.21.  
>Go to Main, Setup, Rules, Filters and use the online help if you need it.
>-- 
>Scott Leibrand
>[email-masked]            (Yes, that is a valid address.)

Hmm, I never really noticed this capability before.

The one thing I don't see is a way to check JUST headers, or especially,
just Received headers.

For example, I don't think I've ever gotten anything BUT spam from tm.net.my,
so I would theoretically send anything with tm.net.my to a possible-spam
folder.  But to do this I would have to (??) search the whole message which
could be very slow.

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From: Scott Leibrand <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 13:01:29 -0700 (PDT)

> folder.  But to do this I would have to (??) search the whole message which

Which is why you should use a "real" mail-deliver filtering agent instead
of Pine for this job.  That's the standard doctrine from the UW, and I
believe it makes sense:  If there's anything you don't like about Pine's
simple filtering, use a real filtering tool.

For an even better (but not free) spam-filtering tool, you could also
route your mail through spamcop.net...

-- 
Scott Leibrand
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