filtering incoming mail? :-|

[Robert Krawitz]

In article <SHAWN.90Dec17133759 at litsun8.litsun.epfl.edu>, shawn at litsun8 (Shawn Koppenhoefer) writes:
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] 
]Is it possible to somehow filter mail
]so that any mail with a keyword in
]the subject line is junked right away?
](sort of a junk mail filter i guess)
]I want mail to work just like normal except
]not have some come to me at all.

If your home directory, or some other directory that you have access to,
is mounted on the machine that does mail delivery, it is indeed
possible.  There is a package called pmd (Personal Mail Daemon) which
was written by Jim Aspnes a number of years ago that does this
filtering.  It can deliver mail to various files depending upon
combinations of the sender, recipient, subject, etc.

It is available by anonymous ftp from think.com (131.239.2.1) as
/pmdc.tar.Z.  Be warned that there are some bugs, and that various
people have given me patches that have not made it back in.  However, it
does an effective job for me and a number of other users.
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