Xref: utzoo comp.mail.sendmail:2548 comp.unix.questions:27662 Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!problem!compus!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!news From: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: filtering incoming mail? :-| Message-ID: <1990Dec19.231137.7462@Think.COM> Date: 19 Dec 90 23:11:37 GMT References: Sender: news@Think.COM Reply-To: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail Distribution: comp Organization: Thinking Machines Corp., Cambridge MA Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: shawn@litsun8.litsun.epfl.edu (Shawn Koppenhoefer) In article , 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. -- ames >>>>>>>>> | Robert Krawitz 245 First St. bloom-beacon > |think!rlk (postmaster) Cambridge, MA 02142 harvard >>>>>> . Thinking Machines Corp. (617)234-2116