I have a mailing list I belong to and I want all mail sent to a given
folder EXCEPT mail from a specific person.
I'm going to assume that you want the mail for the "specific person" to be
delivered normally, rather than being discarded.
I know that I don't have it
currently setup correctly.
In cases like this, it can be helpful to post what you *do* have; you
might already be close.
Can someone give me a recipe example of the
best way to handle the situation?
Sure.
First, you're looking for mail TO a specific list. Taking this list as an
example, the corresponding condition line might look a little bit like this:
* ^TO_procmail
(It's possible to match more strictly against the list name, but I'm being
lazy).
You want to match all mail to the above address that is not from a certain
person (in this example, me):
* ! ^From:[ ]*lars(_at_)bu(_dot_)edu
Keeping in mind that procmail ANDs together multiple condition lines (in other
words, ALL condition lines must match for the recipe to match), you can
simply combine these into a final recipe:
:0:
* ^TO_procmail
* ! ^From:[ ]*lars(_at_)(_dot_)*bu(_dot_)edu
lists/procmail
In english, that's: "match all messages addressed to procmail AND NOT from
lars(_at_)bu(_dot_)edu".
At this point, mail from me addressed to the list would either be match by
a subsequent recipe, or would end up in your default system mailbox. If you
simply wanted to discard everything I sent, you could add the following
recipe after the previous one:
:0
* ^From:[ ]*lars(_at_)(_dot_)*bu(_dot_)edu
/dev/null
If you *only* wanted to discard message of mine sent to the list (that is,
you still wanted to see my email in other lists), you might combine
everything like this:
## match all mail to procmail
:0
* ^TO_procmail
{
## match all mail to procmail that is not from me, and file it into
## a folder.
:0:
* ! ^From:[ ]*lars(_at_)(_dot_)*bu(_dot_)edu
lists/procmail
## if the preceding recipe didn't execute, that means I sent the message,
## so we'll discard it.
:0E
/dev/null
}
Hope this helps,
-- Lars
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Lars Kellogg-Stedman * lars(_at_)bu(_dot_)edu * (617)353-8277
Office of Information Technology, Boston University