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From: acbhour@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Rudi van Houten)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: filtering incoming mail? :-|
Message-ID: <1010@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
Date: 20 Dec 90 08:38:18 GMT
References: <SHAWN.90Dec17133759@litsun8.litsun.epfl.edu> <1990Dec19.231137.7462@Think.COM>
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In <1990Dec19.231137.7462@Think.COM> rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) writes:

>In article <SHAWN.90Dec17133759@litsun8.litsun.epfl.edu>, shawn@litsun8 (Shawn Koppenhoefer) writes:
>]
>] 
>]Is it possible to somehow filter mail
>]so that any mail with a keyword in
>]the subject line is junked right away?
>](sort of a junk mail filter i guess)
>]I want mail to work just like normal except
>]not have some come to me at all.

>If your home directory, or some other directory that you have access to,
>is mounted on the machine that does mail delivery, it is indeed
>possible.  There is a package called pmd (Personal Mail Daemon) which
>was written by Jim Aspnes a number of years ago that does this
>filtering.  It can deliver mail to various files depending upon
>combinations of the sender, recipient, subject, etc.

>It is available by anonymous ftp from think.com (131.239.2.1) as
>/pmdc.tar.Z.  Be warned that there are some bugs, and that various
>people have given me patches that have not made it back in.  However, it
>does an effective job for me and a number of other users.

Also if you are using sendmail as MTA the utility filter in the
package elm can do the job for you.

Quoted from the elm monthly posting:

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