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Re: Procmail to filter out Spam

1997-04-24 13:41:00
Bill Jenuwine <wjenuwin(_at_)ford(_dot_)com> writes:
I have set up some procmail recipes to dump any spam/junk email to
/dev/nul.  My recipes look like this

:0 : nuldev
* ^From.*natureplus.com
| /dev/null

/dev/null is a file (well, a device that you treat as a file), not a
program.  You should remove the '|'.  Also, why are you using a
locallockfile?  Do you not want to corrupt the mail that you're
throwing away?

For a minor improvement in speed, you can use the 'h' flag to tell
procmail to not bother writing the body of the message to /dev/null,
but rather only write the header.

        :0 h
        * ^From.*natureplus.com
        /dev/null


Philip Guenther

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