Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!rwthinf!unido.bitnet From: berg%cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de@unido.bitnet (AKA Solitair) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Procmail (was Re: filtering incoming mail? :-|) Message-ID: <3806@rwthinf.UUCP> Date: 2 Jan 91 18:10:00 GMT References: <1990Dec19.231137.7462@Think.COM> Sender: news@rwthinf.UUCP Reply-To: berg%cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de@unido.bitnet Lines: 29 Robert Krawitz writes: >Shawn Koppenhoefer writes: >]Is it possible to somehow filter mail >](sort of a junk mail filter i guess) > 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. > 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. While you're at it, you might as well check out the Procmail package. I wrote it myself, it hooks into the .forward file. And it is essentially bug free. That means: I took every possible precaution to ensure that NO mail ever :-) get's lost. I posted it to comp.sources.unix about a month ago... But since that newsgroup seems to be delayed (somewhat :-), I just reposted it to alt.sources today. -- Sincerely, berg%cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de@unido.bitnet Stephen R. van den Berg. "I code it in 5 min, optimize it in 90 min, because it's so well optimized: it runs in only 5 min. Actually, most of the time I optimize programs."