I'd like to transition to a setup where most incoming mail gets procmailed
into three folders: archive-date, archive, and either INBOX or whatever
other mailbox the procmail rules determine.
That part i can take care of myself. But, as usual, there's the spam
problem. When i go into my inbox and
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 09:52:34AM -0400, Mike Schiraldi wrote:
I'd like to transition to a setup where most incoming mail gets procmailed
into three folders: archive-date, archive, and either INBOX or whatever
other mailbox the procmail rules determine.
That part i can take care of myself.
spamassassin (http://spamassassin.org/) works well for me and it is
set up for use w/ procmail. you add a recipe to run spamassassin.
spamassassin tags it and then you can do whatever you want with the
spam with another recipe.
Yeah, spamassassin is very cool, but unfortunately it's not
Mike --
...and then Mike Schiraldi said...
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% I'd like to transition to a setup where most incoming mail gets procmailed
% into three folders: archive-date, archive, and either INBOX or whatever
% other mailbox the procmail rules determine.
Wow. That sounds like a big pain, IMHO. What's the
What's the purpose of having two archives
I should clarify that when i say archive-date i really mean
archive-yearmonth. So it's not like i'd have thousands of archive
folders. Just 12 per year.
The reason i want two is because sometimes i'll know approximately when a
message came in, and so i
* On 2002.06.12, in [EMAIL PROTECTED],
* Mike Schiraldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That part i can take care of myself. But, as usual, there's the spam
problem. When i go into my inbox and see eighteen pieces of spam, i'd like
to tag them all, run a macro, and have those messages deleted
You might try saving them to a trash folder whne you delete them, and
running an asynchronous daemon that periodically captures message-ids
from the trash folder, prunes them from other folders, and removes them
from trash. But that's not a quick hack.
That actually gives me a terrific idea:
Hello.
On Wed 2002-06-12 at 10:37:21 -0400, Mike Schiraldi wrote:
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I think what i'll do is filter probable spam as if it were just regular mail
and write a script that i can call on each piece of spam. The script will
count the number of bytes in the message (call it N) and then look
