Re: exim filters

[ktb <x.y.f@home.com>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:38:54PM +0100, benalb@escomposlinux.org wrote:
> 
>   Hi, 
> 
>   I'm trying the exim interface to mail filtering, and, I
>   have sent about five messages to this list. I'm so sorry.
> 
>   The filter I'm trying is this:
> 
> if personal and
>    $h_from contains "yahoo" or
>    $h_from contains "aol.com" or
>    $h_from contains "hotmail" or
>    $h_from contains "mixmail" 
> then
>    mail
>       to $reply_address
>       subject "Re: $h_subject:"
>       file $home/mail/.message
>    save $home/mail/filtrados
> endif
> 
>   ¿what am I doing wrong, besides spam this list? 
> 

As much traffic as this list gets there is no reason to be spaming the
list.  It's just going to piss people off.  You could also send mail to
yourself to test.

Look into "procmail" for your filtering needs.  You didn't mention what
email client you are using.  People could guess but....
kent

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