On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Richard E. Hawkins Esq. writes:
> > 
> > 
> > reading through a newsgroup, someone pointed out what should have been 
> > obvious:  bulk emailings almost never have a "to:" or "cc:" in the header, 
> > and 
> > that mail could be filtered to a junk box in this manner.
> > 
> > But looking through the exmh documentation about .maildelivery, this 
> > doesn't 
> > seem to be an option:  I can sort by the contents of any field, but it 
> > doesn't 
> > mention the *existence* of any field.
> > 
> > Or would 
> > 
> >   To    *   | ?   "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore +inbox"
> > 
> > put an article into the inbox if there was something in the To line, and do 
> > nothing if no such line existed?
> > 
> 
> Perhaps the way to sort the "junk" mail from the legit, wanted mail is to
> 
> 1) match any mail which meets your critera and put that mail into your normal
> mailbox
> and 2) default all other mail to a junk account which you can have "cron"
> delete it periodically.

I use a simple procmail recipe what checks the To: and Cc: headers for MY
email address.. If it is not there, it goes to the spamtrap folder.

Mind you, I put this at the END of the filters, so that this user-list,
and a couple of other lists get caught by their respective filters.

For those interested... procmail recipe:
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:0:
* ! ^(To:|Cc:)[EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamtrap

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                       Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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