(Fwd) Blocking email

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:53:04 -0400
From: Edward Dyer <aa146@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: CSuite Development List <csuite-dev@chebucto.ns.ca>
cc: Kevin_Georgison <keving@freenet.mb.ca>,

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Hi All,

	I was looking at that very subject yesterday, and came up with 
some useful links.
	
	Try http://www.jazzie.com/ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/

for the low down on how to do it.  No, Pine does not do filtering 
itself.  You need something like procmail, which redirects the mail 
_before_ it goes into your mailbox.  Options are to silently delete, 
acknowledge, split the mailstream, forward to abuse<careful with this one 
:->, whatever you would like to program.
Somebody has put up a web page with lots of examples at Concordia U, if 
memory serves me.  If you choose to split the mailstream, then Pine can 
support multiple mailboxes.

The pine pages as well at http://www.washington.edu/pine/ are useful.

We'll put this back on the CSuite Workshop agenda for an update.  Any input 
should probably go to csuite-dev@chebucto.ns.ca, or send it to me via 
postmaster.

Hope this helps...

Ed Dyer
Assistant Postmaster <postmaster@chebucto.ns.ca>
Chebucto Community Network

On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, David L. Potter wrote:

> Hello folks... several of us at the Chebucto technical workshop have been 
> discussing this on a casual basis for a couple of months now... 
> personally I'd like to see a system that would allow us to 'blacklist 
> sites', and otherwise filter sites on both a site and individual basis. 
> 
> It appears that the way spammers move around makes it hard to catch the 
> stuff using any single method.
> 
> With everything else going on here we haven't really been able to advance 
> the issue but we'd be interested in any progress you're able to make.
> 
> david potter
> 
> On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Kevin_Georgison wrote:
> 
> > Any ideas folks?  Can Pine filter and sort the INBOX in to folders?
> > 
> > ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
> > Date:          Tue, 18 Mar 1997 21:58:52 -0600 (CST)
> > From:          Janet Battison <lqs081@freenet.mb.ca>
> > To:            Blue Sky Help Line Volunteers <bsfhelp@freenet.mb.ca>
> > Subject:       Blocking email
> > 
> > Can you please tell me if there is any way that undesireable emails can 
> > be blocked...
> > 			
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > Janet
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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> David Potter                 http://chebucto.ns.ca/CSuite/CSuite.html
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+ Ed Dyer 


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