Filtering Email to Delete Without Using POP Filters

Filtering Email to Delete Without Using POP Filters

[Frank Roberts - SOTL]

Hi All 

Using Kmail is there a way to set a filter such that any mail from a 
particular source is deleted automatically.

I an aware that this can be done with pop filters but that takes place before 
the mail is downloaded. This also requires a good bit more knowledge of what 
the email contents are than I current possess.

What I want to do is filter the mail first to substract what I want and then 
set up a filter to automaticall send selected mail to the general inbox and 
other selected mail directly to delete.

Thanks
Frank
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Re: Filtering Email to Delete Without Using POP Filters

[jude dashiell]

Any number of ways exist to do what you want in Linux.  If you use pine,
under setup and rules you'll find filters and you want to add a filter.
Then name the filter and fill in your criteria.  Save it and exit and the
e-mail is gone.  There's procmail but it like sendmail is a major bitch in
terms of getting operational and you have to keep on adding filters to it.
I may go back to procmail though having used pine because procmail can
forward spam to different mailing addresses very easily once you get it
set up correctly.  mailfilter is another package that can do much the same
thing as well.

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Re: Filtering Email to Delete Without Using POP Filters

[Peter Edstrom]

Using procmail is a very good way of handling mail filtering, in my
opinion. You can easily combine it with a spam filter (ie. bmf; take a
look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bmf/ for more info) to limit the
amount of spam you receive. I think setting up new filters is not that a 
big deal, if you consider the great usage and portability of procmail
(you're not limited to any specific MUA).

If you find it frustrating manually adding mail filters, why don't you
write a li'l bash script? :)

Well, just my .2 SEK worth.

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 03:24:36PM -0400, jude dashiell wrote:
> Any number of ways exist to do what you want in Linux.  If you use pine,
> under setup and rules you'll find filters and you want to add a filter.
> Then name the filter and fill in your criteria.  Save it and exit and the
> e-mail is gone.  There's procmail but it like sendmail is a major bitch in
> terms of getting operational and you have to keep on adding filters to it.
> I may go back to procmail though having used pine because procmail can
> forward spam to different mailing addresses very easily once you get it
> set up correctly.  mailfilter is another package that can do much the same
> thing as well.

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Re: Filtering Email to Delete Without Using POP Filters

[Peter Edstrom]

Oh, that "ie" should really be an "eg". All these acronyms. :)
To fill out this message, I give you some related links from my bookmarks:

Procmail Mini-Tutorial: Automated Mail Handling
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue14/procmail.html

A Plan for Spam
http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

These articles are recommended.

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 11:40:55PM +0200, Peter Edstrom wrote:
> Using procmail is a very good way of handling mail filtering, in my
> opinion. You can easily combine it with a spam filter (ie. bmf; take a
> look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bmf/ for more info) to limit the

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Re: Filtering Email to Delete Without Using POP Filters

[Frank Roberts - SOTL]

Hi Peter and Jude

Thanks for the help.

Frank
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Re: Filtering Email to Delete Without Using POP Filters

[Peter]

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