Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 21:02:20 +1000 From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What string to filter FreeBSD lists? Message-ID: <199707241102.VAA00734@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:38:17 %2B0200." <19970723223817.03746@keltia.freenix.fr>
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> According to David Kelly: > > and every incoming message. Slocal works. I sorta understand what I > > did to make it work. And one day will look into procmail and see if > > *this* time I can understand it. > > Procmail is not that hard to understand, especially for Majordomo-managed > lists. > > For BSD lists, I use ~ > :0: > * ^Sender:.*owner-(freebsd-|)security.* > freebsd/security The mh variant of that is: MHLIB=/usr/local/lib/mh . . :0 * ^From owner-(freebsd-|)security.* |$MHLIB/rcvstore +freebsd/security Note the missing ':' after the '0', which tells procmail not to attempt to lock (not needed in this case - mh handles it's own locking where it needs to do so). Procmail can also be fiddled to directly into mh folders, but I found that some of mh's metadata isn't updated correctly and 'new' mail isn't marked as new. I looked at slocal when I converted to mh, but it seemed too limited for what I was doing, so I stuck with procmail which has worked fine for me for several years now. Oh, and I have exmh set up for background flist, not inc, since procmail handles my inbox as well. > ############## Weed out duplicate messages sent to many mailing-lists ###### > > :0 Wh: msgid.lock > | formail -D 32768 msgid.cache Yep, this is a good idea too. It's surprising just how much this catches. Personally I use only 16k, which seems to work for me, but it is probably a function of just how much mail you receive. :) Regard, David -- David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/
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