From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:29:12 -0700 (PDT)
To: hjk@ddorf.rhein-ruhr.de (=?iso-latin-de?Q?Heinz-J=FCrgen_Keller?=)
Subject: Re: How to IGNORE massive To: and Cc: spams
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Message-ID: <199704160224.VAA00425@manifold.algebra.com>
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try using fetchmail linstead of popclient.

fetchmail passes all emails on to the local (localhost) sendmail.

igor

=?iso-latin-de?Q?Heinz-J=FCrgen_Keller?= wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> 
> > Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
> > > 
> > > ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) writes:
> > > >
> > > > [this is only of interest to UNIX(tm) users. Windows users, please ignore]
> > > 
> > > I suspect that a typical Windows user with a POP account usually has a unix
> > > account and a home directory (although its shell may be /etc/false or some
> > > such); he may be able to ftp to it and create a .forward file pointing
> > > to procmail, who will look at the incoming mail before passing on to his
> > > PPP. I don't really know shit about this, so don't flame me if this
> > > doesn't work. :-)
> > 
> > If the user shell is /bin/false, most likely the .forward file will not
> > be able to invoke any programs.
> > 
> > 	- Igor.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> This is a real problem to me. As I recieve mail via cslip using
> popclient there seems to be no way to get it sorted. Though I'm not a
> programmer at all I could instruct procmail to do what I want. It works
> fine when I'm sending mail from one account to the other locally. You can
> find information on procmail on the net (and this list). But nobody seems
> to know about popclient, which according to the man-pages may be
> influenced by an awk-script to do sorting.
> Does anybody know about an example script on that? An URL?
> Not that I know about awk. But you can't do anything w/o trying.
> 
> -Tom
> 
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	- Igor.