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:.*deb...@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-
