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- From: technews@iitmax.iit.edu (Kevin Kadow)
- Subject: Re: mail help: how to reject mail?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.071932.16877@iitmax.iit.edu>
- Organization: Technology News, IIT, Chicago, IL
- References: <1992Aug27.152847.23723@eng.ufl.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 07:19:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug27.152847.23723@eng.ufl.edu> zzang@whale.uucp (Zhuo Zang) writes:
- )Hello,
- )this may look like a strange question.
- )someone distributes mails to our Dept
- )on a weekly base . but not neccessarily
- )everyone in this Dept need that info,
- )is it possible to reject this kind of
- )mail on personal preference?
- )
- )Thanks in advance !
- )
- )-zhuo
- )
-
- The "filter" utility, which appears to be part of the Elm mailreader (at
- least on this machine) files, can take several actions based on the
- sender, subject line, addressee, and length, BEFORE the message is
- placed in the recipients mailbox.
-
- If you have FILTER available, "man filter" should give you more info.
-
- You need to have a line similar to the following in your .forward file
- in your home directory:
-
- |/usr/bin/filter
-
- For filter to handle your incoming mail, you need to create a file,
- called .filter_rules, which contains if-then statements to determine
- what is done with the messages.
-
- --
-