On Wed, 22 May 2002, Thomas Mueller wrote: > This is, in part, a test message to the Arachne list. Has the list been down, > or have I been dropped due to some bug?
I don't *think* the list has been down. > I can't see the rationale behind the Korean spammers bombarding me and others. > What can they be trying to sell me if I can't read their language? I don't have a clue. The spam I get from Korea has all been in English. > One type of spam is probably impossible to filter out, when subscribed to an > emailing list that accepts posts from nonsubscribers as well as subscribers, > such as the NetBSD lists. Header fields usually give no clues that might > distinguish the spams from legit messages. Right. In that case it's up to the list manager to filter, report, or both. > How do you tell fetchmail what file to download/append to? Actually, I use procmail to do that. For instance, the arachne rule looks like this: # ------------ arachne list mail to separate folder ----- # ------------ else the Inbox gets too bloated ---------- :0 : * ^Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $PINEDIR/arachne PINEDIR is set early on in .procmailrc with PINEDIR=$HOME/mail Stephen said something about fetchmail saving to a file, but I've never used it that way. I only use fetchmail to get mail from my various POP accounts. It then drops them all to "steve". procmail takes it from there and sorts, bounces, autoreplies, or whatever processing needs to be done. > Is it then possible > to read the same messages with more than one reader? Yes. I just fired up my POP server and used Netscape to "get" my localhost mail. 376 messages... all previously read from within PINE (and still residing in the INBOX), are now also in my Netscape INBOX. That method creates a duplicate inbox file. If you wanted to delete all html mails from PINE, and all plaintext messages from Netscape, it would be easy enough. I could have set the mail directory in Netscape to the same as PINE uses, which would then allow me to a single inbox file with both readers... or I could set the Netscape mail directory to arachne file and read and reply to the arachne list via Netscape, but all other mail in PINE. There are as many ways to do it as you have the imagination and will to come up with. > I had trouble setting up > fetchmail some time ago, like several years. Does fetchmail have any trouble > with messages that have lines of 1024 characters wide? fetchmail isn't a mail reader. It's a "retrieval client." As such, it doesn't care what format the mail is in. If you're referring to a DOS version of fetchmail... well, I don't know what kinds of limitations that might have. -- Steve Ackman http://twoloonscoffee.com (Need green beans?) http://twovoyagers.com (glass, linux & other stuff)
