Mail delete script

[terrywashington]

Does anyone know of a script that will delete mail that has certain contents in the subject field?

 

[Rhinokiller]

This function is performed by the LDA not sendmail. The most common LDA is procmail. If you are not using it I recommend installing it. Once you have it installed you need to create a recipie in a .procmailrc file. Place the .procmailrc file in /home/mailusername.
A simple recipie like this will work

:0:
* ^Subject: all.*mail
/dev/null

This says: Anything that begins with "Subject: all" and contains the string "mail" (followed by anything, or nothing) somewhere after that is to be saved in the folder /dev/null

TIP: Use VI as your editor when creating recipies. pico -w will work too but as your recipies get more complicated vi makes more sense



There is no God, only 10001010

 

[terrywashington]

Thanks Rhinokiller. The .procmailrc file works perfectly! Is there a way to configure the file to filter for multiple subjects?

 

[Rhinokiller]

You can stack your recipies in the .procmailrc file

:0:
* ^Subject: all.*mail
/dev/null

:0:
* ^Subject: any.*junk
/dev/null

:0:
* ^Subject: more.*ofthesame
/dev/null

There is no God, only 10001010

 

[terrywashington]

Thanks again!