Re: A "subject" rule for procmail

dashielljt
2003-09-14T05:32:54Z

You have now learned the futility of subject filters. Perhaps a white
list filter would work better. Unfortunately I don't know how to set one
of them up in procmail but have one set up and working in pine. As a
stopgap measure in procmail, search for something like this, :0 HB
* prescription
spam

-- ----- That effectively searches both the header and body of the message
for prescription and tosses those messages into the spam folder. I don't
send anything to /dev/null automatically. I have a chance to look at it
before taking further action. A white list filter's concept is there are
people and lists that don't send you spam; their addresses are put onto a
white list. Everyone on that white list goes into your inbox, everyone
else goes into spam folder. A further wrinkle on a white list filter is
the spam2go folder. See when I search spam, I find some good e-mail in it
that won't be picked up by my white list just yet. So I deal with that
e-mail accordingly and put the real spam into spam2go and then that
empties the spam folder. That way when I next look at spam folder I'm not
looking at any old messages since any old spam was already put into
spam2go. What happens to the contents of spam2go? Well I enable display
of full headers and select all messages when spam2go count gets to 50
messages happens every two days now and forward all messages as a mime
digest to uce@ftc.gov. Then I delete all messages from spam2go so it only
gets new spam for uce@ftc.gov to check out. The federal trade commission
sometimes takes some action against spam artists and corporations that
sponsor spam when legal grounds can be found.GNU Linux a real operating
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