Re: Filtering mailing lists

From: Ben C. O. Grimm - Libertatis Praesidium NL - (BenGrimm@xs4all.nl)
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 19:41:07 +0100

At 17:59 21-2-98 , Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet wrote:

>In article <CflxqeenMmF4078yn@gol.com>,
>sakovich@gol.com (William Sakovich) wrote:
>> In the Yarn filter system I have, there is a category for blocking out
>> things from "From". But on the mail headers, there are two "From"s,
>> one from the list itself, and several lines down, one from the poster.

>I'd install a filter that looked for "^From: .*his@email" in the entire
>message header; that way, if there is *any* From line with that address
>the filter will catch it.

Wouldn't that be "^From.*his@email"? The solution you suggest appears to
miss the From-header and to work only on the From:-header. Or am I too much
procmail-inclined :)

BTW, in Yarn's score system 'x From email@address' performs the trick for
both headers, AFAIK. [where 'x' is any score)

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