Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucsd!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!esosun!seismo!uunet!cos!pae From: pae@cos.com (Paul A. Ebersman) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Filtering junk mail Message-ID: <11581@cos.com> Date: 5 Dec 88 15:02:46 GMT References: <442@ur-cc.UUCP> Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA Lines: 25 From article <442@ur-cc.UUCP>, by msir_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota): In article <79561@sun.uucp> kuro@sun.UUCP (Teruhiko Kurosaka) writes > Does anyone out there knows any way to insert a filter program > in the sendmail daemon so that a piece of e-mail that meets > a certain criteria (such as addressed to an alias but not addressed > to the user directly) goes to a designated folder automatically, or > just be thrown away? The Elm mail program (currently v2.1 patch level 1) includes a program called "filter" which you put in your .forward file. Filter uses a rule set that you make to filter your mail. It has string matching on To:, From:, and Subject fields and can also key on # of lines. I couldn't handle the amount of mail I get easily without this. --- Paul A. Ebersman @ Corporation for Open Systems pae@cos.COM or pae%cos.com@uunet.uu.net or {uunet, sundc, hadron}!cos!pae ( The difference between practice and theory in practice is always greater than the difference between practice and theory in theory. ) -- Paul A. Ebersman @ Corporation for Open Systems pae@cos.COM or pae%cos.com@uunet.uu.net or {uunet, sundc, hadron}!cos!pae ( The difference between practice and theory in practice is always greater than the difference between practice and theory in theory. )