> >Do (any) mail filters accept wildcards in their definitions? > > procmail, Rik, procmail :-)
I was just going to ask aloud why I wasted my time yesterday... :)) Sounds like a procmail job to me, esp if you're collecting all your mail with fetchmail first. In that case there's also no point in going through your local postfix first, just have fetchmail pipe into procmail. It's a bad idea to have catch-all wildcard email addresses, unless you really like to make yourself a target for the spammers. You can set your own email addresses at e.g. registerdirect.co.nz. Let your ISP reject the rest (that way you're also not paying for that traffic). The man pages of procmail, grep, and egrep explain regular expressions sufficiently for someone who can read man pages (they're very concise and often not easy). Don't even look at perl regexes unless you plan to program in perl, you will only get confused. > I haven't seen any GUI MUA's offer regexp filtering ... just the > simplified "starts with|contains" sort of stuff. Sightings welcome! That's why you use procmail - it's independent of any MUA you might use. All GUI MUAs suck, and if you're logging back in from outside you might only get a text client. procmail gives you freedom to dump any MUA at the drop of a hat. Come to think of it - I should add this point to the slides. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
