> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:55:39 +0100 > From: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mutt Users' List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Negative scores and regexp questions > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 04:23:51PM +0100, Christian Ordig wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:00:36AM -0500, David T-G wrote: > > > I'm in the same boat, in fact :-) What we really need is for active > > > scorers to reply! > > ok. here I is one ... > > > > > > If you tried to implement all of that, with those incremental tests, in > > > procmail your rules would be ugly *and* you'd have a lot of duplication > > > (I imagine the same sorts of problems would apply to any filter, but I > > > dunno from maildrop or the others recently mentioned -- yet). > > That's the point. Imagine someone you don't really care about. > <snipped -- regretfully> > Ok, that is a good explanation. > It still does sound a little complex (since you have been the only > "active" scorer to reply so far, it does not seem widely used). > Interesting though, I have a *prime* candidate for a person on a > particular list (I won't name list or person, but it's no-one on > this list .. unless he lurks..) whose messages I usually crudely filter into > a mailbox called "bollocks". Unfortunately he sometimes appears cc'ed > or to'ed or whatever on a subject I want to hear about. Sounds like > scoring might help.
I think I know the name of the person, and this is what I have in my .maildroprc: if (/^Received: from .*hisdomain\.com/) { to "$MAILDIR/trash" } This catchis only those messages that he has sent to the list, leaving those that have been cc'd to him pass as usual. HTH. -- FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 12:12PM up 50 days, 22:55, 13 users, load averages: 0.07, 0.15, 0.17