META: How to survive reading this list

Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 19:09:24 -0700 (PDT)

O'Regan, Emlyn writes:
> Between 11 May 99 (start of property rights fiasco) and 4 June 99
> [ tale of much woe deleted ]

In case you run Linux, and want to filter using procmail, do this:

create a ~/.procmailrc file containing roughly the following entries:

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #recommended

:0
* ^From.*plonkit@aol.com
/dev/null

:0
* ^Subject:.*aardvark
/dev/null

now, create a .forward file containing the following line: "|exec /usr/bin/procmail"

Perhaps you ought practice that on a fake user, lest you lose some mail by fooling around with regexpen.