Re: procmail

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Author: Kurt Granroth
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: procmail

On Aug 6, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> I was wondering, I get certain messages from my ISP that I do not care
> to
> receive and was hoping that procmail sorts through things before it
> gets to
> kmail. Is that so?


Yes. Procmail is (these days) typically called by the MTA to put your
mail
into your mailbox. I recommend reading up on procmail before doing too
much
with it as it is *very* powerful and can be a bit esoteric. That said,
here is
a quick rule that I use to nuke all mail that comes to

(which is 100% spam):

:0
* ^
/dev/null

> The reason I am hoping that procmail sorts things first is that knail
> can't
> delete things into oblivion, it puts it in the trash bin.


Not technically true. Try "Shift-Delete" to delete a message without
putting it
into the trash.

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