Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:39:41 +1100 (EST) From: jacob rhoden <jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> To: Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing emails from an email file automatically. Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.43.0302201438001.28340-100000@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20030219224303.00971230@pop.voyager.net>
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Hi, On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Dragoncrest wrote: > Hi all. Is there a simple way to remove a single email from a mail file > using an automated script of some kind? Like combining grep with some > other stuff like that? I'm looking for ideas to get rid of rogue > emails. The other couple haven't exactly been a stellar success yet. Can > I setup something that will search a mail file, find a given sender, and > then just nuke the message without hurting the mail file? Thanks everyone. I am not sure if you want to work on an existing file, or future mail files. If it is future mail files then you probably want to use a program which can stop the mail getting in the file in the first place. If this is the case look up 'procmail'. It allows you to read a mail and do an action on it through your .forward file. Regards, Jacob _______________________________________________________ Jacob Rhoden Phone: +61 3 9844 6102 ITS Division Email: jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au Melbourne University Mobile: +61 403 788 386 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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