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Re: Filtering junk mail

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From: Andrew Findlay
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 1988 15:10
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In article <79561@sun.uucp> kuro@sun.UUCP (Teruhiko Kurosaka) writes:
>Does anyone out there knows any way to insert a filter program
>in the sendmail daemon so that a piece of e-mail that meets
>a certain criteria (such as addressed to an alias but not addressed
>to the user directly) goes to a designated folder automatically, or
>just be thrown away?

Look at the 'filter' program that comes with the Elm mailer.
To use it, you just set up your .forward file to pipe all mail through
the filter and it applies a set of rules to each item of mail.

The rules can specify that different things happen to the mail depending on
who it was addressed to, and a number of other things.

Andrew

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From: andrew@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Filtering junk mail
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Date: 5 Dec 88 15:10:41 GMT
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