From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jun 27 23:34:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07247 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 23:34:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA07240 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 23:34:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA00333; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 16:34:00 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980628163353.43436@welearn.com.au> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 16:33:54 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: fewtch@serv.net Cc: Malartre , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Asking Sue nicely, no personal Emails... (was Re: How import References: <3595765D.1CBED06A@aei.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Tim Gerchmez on Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 09:39:37PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 09:39:37PM -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > > My mail reader in Windows (Eudora) allowed server-side filtering - I.E. if I > didn't want to receive a message, the mail reader wouldn't download it at all, > just instruct the server to delete the message. My BSD Email program doesn't do > that, AFAIK (I'll have to check more carefully). I'm sorry, I won't change my habits daily on the basis of the quirks of whatever software you happen to be running. Perhaps you should look around. I noticed that your style of quoting has deteriorated recently. At first I thought you were being humorous but it seems to be associated with the use of your new mailer. You might want to take a look at mutt. For filtering, try procmail. They're both in the ports. > I have a right to control what goes into my private mailbox, and to > request that others don't send me mail, for whatever reason I please. Certainly you do! You have permission to unsubscribe from -newbies or any other list any time you wish if you'd really prefer to to receive the type of mail the list provides. Let me know if you need any help with this or anything else. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message