On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Chuck Campbell wrote:
In response to my earlier request, I received the following:
If I understand you correctly, you want to know why a message might be
tossed into /dev/null.
The way I do this ("borrowed" from era) is:
:0
I assume this means no lockfile is used?
Not at this point. If you used a lockfile here, you would get an
extraneous lockfile message. You need the lockfile when writing to a
file. This part is not doing that.
* ^X-Advertis
{
LOG = "Reason: Its a freaking ad $N"
:0
/dev/null
}
Where N="
"
This is the part I don't understand, what is N equal to?
Its a newline. It provides the equivalent of:
LOG = "Reason: Its a freaking ad
"
This way you see how many messages were caught by a specific filter.
Meanwhile, I had tried
:0
* ^From.*fwtk
* ^Subject:.*ubscribe
fwtk_junk
I then did a ln -s /dev/null fwtk_junk, so that the messages are actually
thrown away, and not kept in a folder called fwtk_junk. I continue to get
the following errors in the log though:
Are you positive that it is this one filter acting up? Check your verbose
log to make sure.
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