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Grex > Coop12 > #88: Feature Request - Blocking Non-Grex Email | |
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aaron
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Feature Request - Blocking Non-Grex Email
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Feb 26 21:19 UTC 2002 |
Requested feature - the ability to block email from outside of Grex.
With infrequent logins, I find that my mailbox overflows with spam when
I log in. I don't want the spam, I don't read the spam, and when I get
here I delete the spam. If I could simply block all non-Grex email, I
would spare Grex the burden of warehousing all of that garbage.
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jep
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response 1 of 8:
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Feb 26 22:06 UTC 2002 |
Isn't procmail installed here? It's a mail filter program and can
probably discard all your mail from off-site. I haven't used it much
myself, Aaron, and haven't looked at it for years, but maybe it would
help you.
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aaron
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response 2 of 8:
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Feb 26 23:22 UTC 2002 |
It's more a question of helping Grex. I imagine that I am not the only
Grexer who doesn't use mail here, but routinely finds his mailbox
spammed to the point of overflowing.
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jep
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response 3 of 8:
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Feb 26 23:49 UTC 2002 |
I was thinking only of your request. I agree it would help Grex more
than you personally.
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styles
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response 4 of 8:
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Feb 27 00:25 UTC 2002 |
not sure how one would make this a very easy task (like so a user could just
do 'touch ~/.nooutsidemail' or something), but the procmail skeleton shouldn't
be too difficult to automate.
edit your .forward to have
"| /usr/local/bin/procmail"
(or whereever procmail resides on this system).
then create a .procmailrc with something like the following in it:
:0:
* ^From.*@grex.*
/path/to/your/mailfile/somewhere/in/var
:0:
* ^From.*@localhost.*
/path/to/your/mailfile/somewhere/in/var
:0:
* ^From.*@.*
/dev/null
you might even add an entry for ^From.*@cyberspace.*, if you permit addresses
like styles@cyberspace.org or (locally) styles@cyberspace.
change /path/to/your/mailfile... to /var/mail/a/a/aaron (sorry, didn't check
that while in that silly little editor pico), and you should be set.
this is totally untested, of course, but i think it's more or less right.
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srw
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response 5 of 8:
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Mar 14 03:57 UTC 2002 |
procmail is broken on Grex
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styles
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response 6 of 8:
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Mar 14 04:10 UTC 2002 |
heh, make that .forward have "|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail" instead.
MA BAD!
(dunno if procmail is broken)
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scg
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response 7 of 8:
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Mar 18 07:53 UTC 2002 |
If I remember correctly, procmail on Grex is broken in that it doesn't know
where Grex puts users' mailboxes. If that's the case, presumably a user named
foo could have the last entry of their .procmailrc say this:
:0:
/var/spool/mail/f/o/foo
and procmail should stick mail in the right place.
I haven't actually tested this, so anybody wanting to use it should test it
first. In theory, it should work. In theory, in theory and in practice are
the same. ;)
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gelinas
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response 8 of 8:
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Mar 20 05:47 UTC 2002 |
I've gotten the latest version of procmail but haven't built it yet.
According to the docs, it understands /var/spool/mail/f/o/foo
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