Re: Filtering mailing lists

From: William Sakovich (sakovich@gol.com)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 10:57:15 -0500

In article <199802211842.TAA08111@mailme.wirehub.nl>,
"Ben C. O. Grimm - Libertatis Praesidium NL -" <BenGrimm@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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)

Thanks for both of those notes...I'll try again and see what happens.

- Bill Sakovich (sakovich@golcom)