Alan K. Stebbens writes on 22 September 1996 at 15:27:01
Is there any reasonable way to write a procmail script so that it
looks in a file, call it, losers.txt, say, for the ^From: line in the
header, and then sends matching messages to /dev/null?
This has been discussed before, many times. Please review the procmail
archive, for messages, from me even, within the last two or three
Yes indeed; and if you do so, you'll note that recipes like the one from
robert(_at_)elastica(_dot_)com writes on 22 September 1996 at 18:16:43
Joel Rosenberg <ellegon(_at_)ibm(_dot_)net> writes:
[...]
echo "seen, actually), but will generate this response." ; \
[...]
echo "---- Original Message ----" ; \
cat -
are not a particuarlly good idea. It's best to just send such
messages straight to /dev/null; if you feel you must respond in some
way, then manually send a message to the user's postmaster and/or ISP.
Dan
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