[svlug] need a procmail recipie

Tin Le tin at le.org
Tue Aug 29 16:22:02 PDT 2000


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> Anyone know of or have a procmail filter that can remove parts of an email
> message? I belong to this eGroups list, and those bastards are slapping an
> advertisement at the TOP of every message.

> The spam is of the form:

> -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~>
> BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
> buy our shit
> http:/someurl.com
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------_->

> always, but with three or four lines in between the ---- parts.

> How can I have procmail search and replace that chunk with nothing?

Try something like this in your .procmailrc

:0 B fw
* ^---+ eGroups Sponsor ---+$
| sed -e '/^---+ eGroups Sponsor ---+$/,/^---+$/d'


It's a quick hack, so you may want to adjust it.

Tin Le
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http://tin.le.org
Tin Le - tin at le.org
Firewall and Security Consulting

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