Subject: Re: Procmail question
From: James F. Zuelow Jr. (jamesz@ideafamilies.org)
Date: Fri Apr 05 2002 - 09:35:38 AKST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Barsalou" <mbarsalou@aidea.org>
To: <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 9:05 AM
Subject: Procmail question
>
> OK. I now can use procmail to my hearts content weeding out any type
of
> mail I wish.....which leads to this question:
>
> What happens if I (heaven forbid) make a recipe that removes a valid
e-mail?
>
> If I am putting my rejected e-mail into a file, how can I later look
at that
> file and forward one of the many e-mails that will be in that file to
its
> original destination?
>
> Is there a good tool that will read that file as though it were a
mailbox?
> I am thinking that it probably isn't formatted properly for that to
work.
>
> Mike
How are you putting spam into a file? Like this:
:0:
* [spam filter rules here]
spam
Will put it into a regular mailbox named spam.
I just send spam into a normal mailbox as above. I catch legit messages
every so often. Every few days I might scan the contents of the folder
to make sure nothing important is there before deleting the whole
folder. Procmail will create it again if anything matches the filter.
The only rule I have for reading the spam is to not use an HTML aware
MUA (usually I use Pine).
Cheers,
James
---------
To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a23 : Fri Apr 05 2002 - 09:36:15 AKST