[accidentally sent to -request address - pls add me to the pinhead list]
Well, it figures. I start honking about how you shouldn't be afraid to
send mail to /dev/null, and guess what happens? Not one, but TWO mails
in one day from legitimate sources hit the bit-bucket. SHAME ON ME.
The first was due to the fact that a friend changed to an ISP that
routes through worldnet, which I had globally killfiled. (Actually,
they're coming out of the killfile now.) The second was a note from a
friend *about* spam. So you're all right, /dev/null is just too final
in a constantly evolving universe of e-mail.
A few other things:
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I just added this recipe
:0:
* ^From: .*\<aol\.com
* !^Received.*\<aol\.com
mail/fake-aol
to avoid the lazier forgers who simply supply a fake AOL "From:"
address. Any objections?
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"What is spam?" *I* know spam when I see it, but my computer still
doesn't. I'm constantly trying to convert the biological
neuro-heuristics between my ears into groups of regular expressions,
and it isn't easy using procmail's limited structure. The idea of
weighted scoring is quite appealing, but I haven't yet sat down with
that particular man page and a pot of coffee. For someone like me with
dozens of rules and twice as many exceptions, this may be the way to
go. However, I am sorely tempted to pipe it *all* to a custom perl
script, where I can grind it to a fine powder with a lot more
flexibility. Does anyone here pipe their mail to custom scripts or
apps?
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What is the message separator in a standard unix mail folder? All I
see between messages in folders is a blank line, and I don't know of
any way to look for control characters. How does Pine, for example,
know where one message ends and the next one begins? I'll need to know
this if I am going to use a custom script to deliver mail to a folder.
Thank you for your time,
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