On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, David W. Tamkin wrote:
wotan(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com asked,
| Recently I have been trying to use scoring to filter my mail.
|
| However, when I use this line:
|
| :0
| * 100^3 > 2000
| test-box
Reread the procmailsc(5) manual page. That condition will score, where S is
the actual size of the message, 100 x (S/2000)^3, which will be positive if S
is positive. If that is the only condition on that recipe, then any message
that runs into it will be stored in test-box.
Thats what i thought should happen, but it didn't work.
Although I've been using a new telnet client and might have misread a
character when typing in the rc. :(
| Otherwise, my scored rc's seem to be doing what I want them to do.
Well, what exactly are you trying to do there? Unless you're saving $=
for use in a later recipe -- and you probably aren't because that recipe is
delivering -- scoring doesn't make sense on a recipe with only one condition.
What I have been doing is use scoring to handle most unwanted e-mail. As
I have ebeen sure a condition is working like I want it to, I add it to my
score.rc.
Which is why I was using only one condition. When I was sure that this
worked, i add it to the other conditions.
And it is working for handling annoyances. But I haven't been spammed in
a week so I don't know how the latest conditions work. :(
As a secondary issue, is using just one rc to filter unwanted e-mail a
good idea since I plan on treating it all the same way?
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