[svlug] filter-rules

[Seth David Schoen]

S. Fouzi Husaini writes:

> Howdy,
>  I'm _brand_ new to this list and feeling a bit overwhelmed with the traffic
> that comes from it. i'd love to read all the messages but they are kinda
> cluttering up my inbox. the machine that I'm on doesn't have the right man
> page for elm filter so if someone already happens to have a filter-rules file
> sitting in their ~/.elm directory for filtering svlug mail I'd appreciate a
> copy. 
> 
> oh, and I tried the obvious:
> 
> if (to = "svlug at svlug.org") then
> save yada yada yada
> 
> but i think it's clear that a lot of messages slip through that rule.

I'm sorry to say that ELM filter, while convenient and friendly, is
deprecated today: it has buffer overflows which I think were never fixed,
and it has been largely overshadowed by procmail.  So now you're supposed
to go and learn procmail, which is considerably harder than filter.  See
the man pages for "procmail", "procmailrc", "procmailex", assuming that
you have procmail installed on your system.

The man page for procmailex has a sample recipe included for filtering
out messages directed to a particular list.

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   Seth David Schoen L&S '01 (undeclared) / schoen at uclink4.berkeley.edu
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