Bayard Coolidge USG said: > >In fact, it's an amusing irony that I am now running exmh 2.5 (thanks >to Paul Lussier's excellent talk in Nashua a couple of months ago). >Here at work, I'm one of the few holdouts still getting e-mail using >the 'mh' system, as opposed to IMAP or *gasp*, Microsoft Exchange. >One of the nice parts about exmh, from an end-user perspective, is >the ability to have the abstracts of the new mail listed on the screen >before I actually open an individual e-mail. This morning, I had 54 >new mail messages, 8 of which were spam. I was able to use a separate >xterm window to cd into my 'inbox' directory, do an 'rm' of the >offending messages, and then tell exmh to 'rescan folder'.
Combine that with procmail & you can filter lots of it to a spam folder. Add ifile & it will watch how you refile messages in exmh/MH and will learn how you do it. Then much of the spam will be refiled by ifile into your spam folder for you after awhile. You can also tell ifile to scan all your current MH folders. >One of the bad things about much of the spam is that the message is >in HTML, which exmh will readily display inline for me, BUT all too >often, there are references to .gif or other decorations from an >external site that I have to wait forever for. Or, worse yet, there's >an inline URL that calls up a web page using a specific serial number >as an argument, which in effect tells the server/spammer that I >opened the message. Go into the preferences -> html viewer http proxy server: localhost proxy port: <pick something not in use> Now those redirects go nowhere, quickly, and you can read the message wit hout waiting. -- ------- Tom Buskey ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
