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Re: Sorting by email addresses

2005-10-10 11:44:00
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Lord Raiden wrote:

LR> 
LR> >First of all, read "man fetchmail", the section entitled THE USE AND
LR> >ABUSE OF MULTIDROP MAILBOXES.  You may be able to do it with fetchmail.
LR> 
LR>          Ok, so if I can sort by individual users using fetchmail, that 
LR> simplify's one part of what I need to do.  So let's move on to the 
LR> second.  Let's say some email address you have is a dummy address.  You for 
LR> example go to MegaBucks Visa inc and give them the email address 
LR> "megabucks(_at_)raiden(_dot_)net".  Then good old megabucks sells your 
address to 3000 
LR> spammers.  I now want to shut down that address using procmail.  Which of 
LR> the recipe's you gave me would allow me to automatically take anything 
LR> addressed to "megabucks(_at_)raiden(_dot_)net" and just pitch it in the 
spam folder?
LR> 

Considering the recipes were not spam filtering recipes but were recipes 
to try to identify recipient from the to:  and cc: headers, one would 
consider that none of them would be suitable for "pitching" at a spam 
folder.  Indeed, if you have solved your problem with fetchmail, then 
those recipes are redundant.  Sean has made a suggestion regarding a 
suitable recipe for spam pitching according to your specification above.

However, if you do use the recipes I posted, they have automatic spam 
pitching matching your specification above. If you had used 
megabucks(_at_)raiden(_dot_)net as a real address, you would have created a 
recipe to 
deliver it to the appropriate user and put a line in the scoring section 
at the end.  On finding that megabuck(_at_)raiden(_dot_)net subsequently had to 
be 
considered as spam, you would have remove those entries.  The consequence 
of that is that mail for megabucks(_at_)raiden(_dot_)net would be delivered to 
the 
mailbox I called "IN.notforalan".  You could rename that "spamfolder" if 
you wanted.

-- 
Alan


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