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Re: How to IGNORE massive To: and Cc: spams
try using fetchmail linstead of popclient.
fetchmail passes all emails on to the local (localhost) sendmail.
igor
=?iso-latin-de?Q?Heinz-J=FCrgen_Keller?= wrote:
>
> On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
>
> > Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
> > >
> > > [email protected] (Igor Chudov @ home) writes:
> > > >
> > > > [this is only of interest to UNIX(tm) users. Windows users, please ignore]
> > >
> > > I suspect that a typical Windows user with a POP account usually has a unix
> > > account and a home directory (although its shell may be /etc/false or some
> > > such); he may be able to ftp to it and create a .forward file pointing
> > > to procmail, who will look at the incoming mail before passing on to his
> > > PPP. I don't really know shit about this, so don't flame me if this
> > > doesn't work. :-)
> >
> > If the user shell is /bin/false, most likely the .forward file will not
> > be able to invoke any programs.
> >
> > - Igor.
> >
> >
> >
> This is a real problem to me. As I recieve mail via cslip using
> popclient there seems to be no way to get it sorted. Though I'm not a
> programmer at all I could instruct procmail to do what I want. It works
> fine when I'm sending mail from one account to the other locally. You can
> find information on procmail on the net (and this list). But nobody seems
> to know about popclient, which according to the man-pages may be
> influenced by an awk-script to do sorting.
> Does anybody know about an example script on that? An URL?
> Not that I know about awk. But you can't do anything w/o trying.
>
> -Tom
>
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- Igor.