Quoth Damien, > as an aside, does mutt have any capabilities like this? what mailer are you > two using? i'm a vi person myself, but i've been told nothing beats gnus I'm not sure that mutt does filtering itself - it's usually a function of the MDA. It'll sort of depend on how you arrange to deliver your mail. Personally, I use maildrop (strongly recomend it, very nice little program), so I'd put something like: if (/^From: .*obnoxious\.user@bad\.isp\.com/) exit in my ~/.mailfilter file. This would just silently drop any mail from obnoxious.user@bad.isp.com into the bit bucket. If you are using qmail, you could put something like the following in your .qmail file: |preline bouncesaying "Go away!" except maildrop -d $USER and change the above exit line to "exit 100" the mail will bounce back to the sending telling them to "Go away!" (that's off the top of my head, I might have got the order wrong...). I believe that if you implement such a solution you should be able to get fetchmail to generate the bounce, but I haven't done this myself (as I control the upstream smtp server...). Of course, if you are using procmail or exim .forwards then your solution will be completely different (it often seems like I'm the only one in the *world* using maildrop, but that's cool...). I'm sure some knowledgeable person will help fill in the gaps. It's possible that you might be able to do it through the MUA (like mutt), but that's not the Unix Way (tm). cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead"
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