Re: Reply configuration (was: All-in-One printer: HP OfficeJet 8012)
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Speaking as one user who would like to see this list go back to being a
> place where howto questions are answered by folks with intimate
> knowledge of how its done, an educational resource, even having healthy
> arguments about methods because we are social creatures and enjoy our
> interactions as a method of getting acquainted with our fellow man,
> something I personally am in favor of, I am very close to writing
> a .procmailrc rule, something I haven't resorted to in several years,
> that will send your contentious, usually unhelpful emails to /dev/null.
May I suggest changing from procmail to the Courier maildrop filter
system? It doesn't require any other part of Courier to be
installed except an auth library, which apt will bring in.
A typical procmail recipe is... aggravating to interpret unless you've
been working with it recently. A mailfilter rule can be read and
understood and rewritten quite easily by someone who hasn't looked at
it in years:
if (/^From:.*debian@polynamaude.com.*/:h)
to /home/dsr/Maildir/.spam/
The only weird bit in there is the :h option, which means to
only look in headers, don't bother with the body.
apt show maildrop
-dsr-
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