Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:32:57 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ahhhhhhhhh! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960611103227.7069F-100000@chain.iafrica.com>
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On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Darren Davis wrote: >There is too much noise, I think I need a straight jacket! I agree. Any reason to cross post to hackers and stable ? My reply is cross-posted to give stable something else to mutter about besides paying for stable ;-) >I came back to my email from the weekend, and I had over 400 hundred emails. You can filter it in a) your mail program or b) a external filter program. I can only comment on Pine (yes, there is at least *one* person using Pine ;-) - the latest (3.93) has built in filtering, although I don't know how good it is - I don't use it. I use procmail (procmail-3.11p4) which is in the ports (/usr/ports/mail/procmail) to filter mail for myself and my root user. Procmail works very well for me. I've set it up to filter all my mail to certain files in the /home/khetan/mail and /root/mail directory, and because ~/mail is Pine's default mail folder, it reads it as a ordinary mail folder. You'll probably find Root's .procmailrc very useful. Please find included my filtering for root (the filtering for Khetan is just as an example - the principle is the same for both). Both work fine; for root, it filters about 800 messages (about 1mb) in less than 10 seconds, and for Khetan it filtes about 300 messages in less than 4 seconds. I'm running -stable, but have used the same tools on -release and they work fine for me. Being on a dial-up, you learn how to spend as little time on-line as possible. Both users need a .forward file, something to the effect of ---.forward for khetan--- "| IFS=' ' && p=/usr/local/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #khetan" ---.forward for khetan--- ---.forward for root--- "| IFS=' ' && p=/usr/local/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #root" ---.forward for root--- They also need a .procmailrc, something to the effect of : ---.procmailrc for khetan--- LOGFILE=/home/khetan/procmail.log :0: *^To.*callbacks /home/khetan/mail/callbacks :0: *^cc.*callbacks /home/khetan/mail/callbacks :0: *^To.*helpdesk /home/khetan/mail/helpdesk :0: *^cc.*helpdesk /home/khetan/mail/helpdesk ---.procmailrc for khetan--- ---.procmailrc for root--- LOGFILE=/root/procmail.log :0: *^Subject:.*tcpd /root/mail/tcpd :0: *^Subject:.*chain /root/mail/chain :0: *^From.*owner-freebsd-questions /root/mail/questions :0: *^From.*owner-freebsd-emulation /root/mail/emulation :0: *^From.*owner-freebsd-current /root/mail/current :0: *^From.*owner-freebsd-stable /root/mail/stable :0: *^From.*owner-freebsd-hackers /root/mail/hackers :0: *^From.*owner-freebsd-announce /root/mail/announce :0: *^From.*owner-freebsd-security /root/mail/security :0: *^Subject:.*SECURITY /root/mail/chain ---.procmailrc for root--- Regards, Khetan Gajjar. --- Visit me at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002
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