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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!news.nodak.edu!plains.nodak.edu!not-for-mail From: ortmann@plains.nodak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Blocking e-mail from a specific address Date: 16 May 1996 15:52:06 -0500 Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network (NDHECN) Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4ng4hm$4c3@plains.nodak.edu> References: <319A4D1B.39C2@goldcountry.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <319A4D1B.39C2@goldcountry.com>, Patrick D. Tiquet <ptiquet@goldcountry.com> wrote: >This is more of a sendmail question than a bsd one... maybe someone here >can help me. > >I regularly get e-mail from a person that I would rather not get e-mail >from. And I would like sendmail just to toss e-mail from that person for >me into the trash... like never deliver it. And, as far as they are >concerned (the sender) the e-mail was delivered as usual. > >Is there some sendmail rulesets I can use to define a database to >accomplish this? A quick glance through the sendmail book has revealed >no clues. > >Please help. 1 - Install the "elm" mailer and use its "filter" program. 2 - Edit your ~/.elm/filter-rules file, adding a delete rule. 3 - Create a ~/.forward file with: "| /usr/local/bin/filter -o /dev/null" Be sure to read the full docs on "filter"; the man page isn't enough. -- Daniel