From b569e471c80b6856b651b59965bed8db260a95de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:10:29 +0000 Subject: Add stuff abour maiilfilter. svn path=/trunk/; revision=3847 --- fetchmail-FAQ.html | 10 +++++++--- indexgen.sh | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index a7a1d9a7..96f9d312 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ content="Frequently asked questions about fetchmail."/> Page To Site Map -$Date: 2003/10/10 09:39:55 $ +$Date: 2003/10/10 19:10:29 $ @@ -400,7 +400,11 @@ tin-like kill files).

You can do spam filtering better with procmail or maildrop on the server side and (if you're the server sysadmin) sendmail.cf -domain exclusions. You can do other policy things better with the +domain exclusions. If you really want fetchmail to do it from the +client side, yse a preconnect command to call +mailfilter.

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You can do other policy things better with the mda option and script wrappers around fetchmail. If it's a prime-time-vs.-non-prime-time issue, ask yourself whether a wrapper script called from crontab would do the job.

@@ -3476,7 +3480,7 @@ does something like "date >> $HOME/Procmail/fetchmail.log".

Page To Site Map -$Date: 2003/10/10 09:39:55 $ +$Date: 2003/10/10 19:10:29 $ diff --git a/indexgen.sh b/indexgen.sh index 8a3690b1..233fddb8 100755 --- a/indexgen.sh +++ b/indexgen.sh @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ FAQ covers them like a blanket.

Fetchmail was written and is maintained by Eric S. Raymond. There are some designated -backup maintainers (Rob Funk, Rob Funk, David DeSimone aka Fuzzy Fox, Dave Bodenstab and Sunil Shetye). Other backup @@ -343,6 +343,11 @@ can retrieve Hotmail. Another script, yosucker, can retrieve Yahoo webmail.

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There's a program called +mailfilter which can be used +to do span filtering, that works particularly well called from fetchmail's +preconnect directive,

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A hacker identifying himself simply as \`Steines' has written a filter which rewrites the to-line with a line which only includes receipients for a given domain and renames the old to-line. It also -- cgit v1.2.3