From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 3:42:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0F8C37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:42:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8644C43EB2 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:42:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com) Received: from spiral (spiral.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBJBg67n048712; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 11:42:06 GMT From: "Barry Byrne" To: "Mxsmanic" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Getting Perl scripts to work as mail filters Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 11:42:06 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-WBT-Authenticated-User: bb X-Scanned-By: slate/MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mxsmanic > I finally got it to work by piping to sendmail. Seems to be adequate for > what I want to do. > > Now all I have to do is design my patented, foolproof methodology for > distinguishing spam from real mail so that I can encode the rules in the > script. There must be a way! Also, this may allow me to do > something about > getting rid of HTML in mail, which I can't stand. If this is your main goal - I recommend looking at mimedefang and spamassassin. mimedefang is a great tool for intercepting mail (uses sendmail milter) and filtering in whatever way suits you. http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/ http://www.spamassassin.org - Barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message