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schaefer@vulcan.alphanet.ch (Marc SCHAEFER) writes:
> Yes, but procmail is a user tool; not a system level tool, AFAIK too :-)

Well, the EPFL-LIA uses procmail for mail delivery, so it's used at the system
level. It's actually very convenient since it allows to provide several
features like getting rid of duplicate mails, conversion from quoted-printable
back to normal 8bits, etc... I added also a filter for "commercial domains"
like cyberpromo, but it's really not perfect. I now use a heuristic that more
or less counts words such as recruiting, market, business, 1-800 and such
things and if the number of words is too high (compared to the size of the
mail) it is deemed "commercial". Problem is: it's too strict and some normal
mails are wrongly considered as commercial (most notably the CFP for
conferences). I could try to improve it some more, tho.
On another hand, you might want to try a more systematized trick which is to
use an adaptive filter. If you use MH (or exmh) and are not afraid of using a
perl script written in a fairly ugly way (to my taste at least), someone has
something for you: it's called "ifile" I believe and is available from
somewhere, but I can't find the reference now. It uses the word frequency
profile of each folder to direct each mail to "its" folder.
it hooks itself in MH so that whenever you move a mail from one folder to
another, it gets a chance to update its "word frequency profile" database.


        Stefan