[NTLUG:Discuss] procmail

[J. Reeves Hall]

Bill Jenkins wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 11:34:35 -0500  "J. Reeves Hall" wrote:
> : One of my classes (Psy1000, "The Psychology of Adjustment to College
> : Life", a complete bull$#!+ class) requires us to join a mailing list.
> : Quite frankly I don't want to receive mail from it. Can someone give me
> : a basic example of invoking procmail (at login, preferably) to move all
> : mail with a subject containing "PSY1000", but with a body NOT containing
> : "quiz", "important", or "test", to the "Bull$#!+" folder? I use Pine as
> : my mailer. BTW I do not have root on this particular server.
>
> There are three procmail man pages:
> procmail, which gives the overview
> procmailrc, which tells you how to set up the .procmailrc file
> procmailex, which gives you basic examples of various user
> configurations
>
> The last seems to be the one I use most.  Since it's been a while
> since I set it up, I'd have to look there to tell you anything, and
> you can do that just as well as I, right?  Assuming of course that

I did actually look at them, but procmail hung when I ran it. Doh! I'll give
it another shot.

> you've done all your homework all these years, and paid attention in
> class, and labored over every tedious assignment.  Because if some ed
> school b.a. with a minor in political correctness thinks you oughta do
> it then you damn well oughta do it, right?

Actually, I don't know the background of my HPS1040 teacher, but you just
described my first impression of her in great detail :) (HPS1040 is "Health
Performance Sciences", aka Wellness class - just as bad as PSY1000, but
enough of an academic threat that I can't completely blow it off...)

-Reeves

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