At 14:25 2002-02-05 -0500, Charlie Summers did say:
<snip>
Star light, star bright, where the hell are you tonight?
Seems nobody can be bothered to do even a minimal amount of their own
footwork these days, doesn't it? Some folk won't even TRY suggested
recipes which would lead them to their own solutions: apparently teaching a
man to fish isn't in vogue with these people - they expect you to catch the
fish for them, clean it, and grill it with imported herbs. Anything less
is an offence to their sensibilities.
Besides, I don't care _what_ recipe you use...my only point is that ANY
recipe designed to filter mail should use as unique a field as possible to
avoid false positives (specifically targeted at Mr. Dunford's "^TO_procmail"
recipe).
Sender is generally a good header to use, and is fairly consistent across
many types of mailing lists. Here's what I use:
:0
* ^Sender: procmail-admin(_at_)lists\(_dot_)rwth-aachen\(_dot_)de
{
# a copy recipe to add a mailbox header which I use on retrieved mail.
#[snip]
# archive this copy
:0:
|gzip -9fc>>$MAILDIR/procmail.gz
}
# Then ditch carbons and the like sent by twits who insist on copying
# the previous poster AND the list. I could toss these, but every so often
# I rummage through the cc_list and see who the twits are.
# NOTE: this also tosses messages which are CROSSPOSTED to multiple lists,
# which just happen to include procmail. This isn't a concern I have - if it
# freaks you, you might want to run this sort of recipe AFTER you've filtered
# ALL of your lists.
:0:$TEMP/cc_list$LOCKEXT
*
^TO(procmail(_at_)lists\(_dot_)rwth-aachen\(_dot_)de|procmail-users(_at_)procmail\(_dot_)org)
|gzip -9fc>>$MAILDIR/cc_list.gz
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Procmail disclaimer: <http://www.professional.org/procmail/disclaimer.html>
Please DO NOT carbon me on list replies. I'll get my copy from the list.
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