On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi list, > > Say, I'm setting up some additional rules in my Procmailrc filters and > there are some items I wish to specify on the "kill" list. Now the reason > for this "kill" list is so that the incoming message won't even be stored > as soon as the parameters for this rule are satisfied. I want to delete > the message outright. I don't want to store it in another folder such as > is being done now. When I told it to "delete" it simply created a folder > named "delete" in Pine's mail dir. Kind-a cute, but not the desire effect. > > I was very particular in the items I have this "kill" filter looking for > cause I didn't want to catch any wanted mail by accident and so far it's > working great. IT's just placing the messages in a folder instead of > deleting them. So, what's the delete command to set in the .procmailrc > file? The place you want to send off into never-never land is called /dev/null; aka the bit bucket. All things sent here disappear. ;) :0 * ^Apparently-to:.* /dev/null ...as an example. The procmailex man page has many more great suggestions. HTH -- | d a v i d @ m i h m | dmihm @ swbell.net | webmaster @ afterstep.org | ftpmaster @ afterstep.org | dmihm @ rchitecture.com --
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