Re: Killfiling people with procmail (Was: Re: Gnome problems in unstable)

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Jamie Lawrence(jal@jal.org) is reported to have said:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, ScruLoose wrote:
> 
> > In the meantime, I think I'll look into how to plonk somebody via my
> > exim filter .forward file.  Shouldn't be too hard.
> 
> Can't help you with exim, don't use it. But if should you start employing
> procmail, it is easy:
> 
> JERKS=hell\.surfers@cwctv\.net
> 
> :0
> * $^From: .*($JERKS).*
> /dev/null
> 
> 
> (This lets you keep adding addresses to the variable JERKS. Separate
> with '|' alternations.)
> 
> 
> If you want to be generous and revisit the messages someday, send them
> to a mailbox instead:
> 
> :0:
> * $^From: .*($JERKS).*
> spam
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 

This works for me in exim.

if  $h_From:  contains  "Hell.Surfers@"
then
    seen
    finish
endif

:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)

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