• Re: Using mutt to filter email

    From dkcombs@dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Thursday, July 24, 2003 01:57:02
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

    In article <slrnbg7i9u.o1e.tim@vegeta.ath.cx>,
    Tim Hammerquist <tim@vegeta.ath.cx> wrote:

    The point is, mail readers are for reading, and mail filters are
    for filtering. Would you attach a marinara dispenser to a pasta
    drain, simply because you like to make spaghetti?!


    Having neither the hours nor the brains to understand
    tll the abovementioned documentation, here's what I
    do -- these are my own notes, super-crude, with another
    list of words I might want to also put into a limit pattern.

    I do this only once a day, and it doesn't really take
    that long, this stupid-person's lazy way:



    FIRST: Hit these three chars: o f *
    , and then delete the emails with the "crazy" from-names.

    SECOND: do "limit" with these patterns:

    ( ~s "[#@=|\`<>]" )
    ( ~f "[#=|\`<>]" )

    ( ~s penis | ~s big | ~s Size | ~s enlarge | ~s your | ~s inch )
    ( ~s online | ~s sex | ~s video ~s adult | ~s free )
    ( ~s she | ~s cock | ~s hard | ~s girls | ~s please | ~s "hot " | ~s "get your" )

    ~s pleasure | ~s confidence | ~s " hey " | ~s fees | ~s chat | ~s low | ~s savings | ~s printer | ~s suppl
    | ~s you | ~s rate | ~s works | ~s stress


    ( ~s valium | ~s viagra | ~s prozac | ~s "pain | ~s meds" | ~s prescri | ~s drug | ~s rx )
    ( ~s lose | ~s weight | ~s power | ~s fat | ~s "thin " | ~s energy | ~s pound )

    ( ~s save | ~s dvd | ~s spam | ~s cable | ~s discount | ~s price )l
    ( ~s advice )

    ( ~s debt | ~s mortgage | ~s [$] | ~s payment | ~s money | ~s offer | ~s interest | ~s finance )


    "try this" | ~s "credit card"
    quit
    smok (smoking, smoke)
    herbal
    pill
    "past due"
    income
    business
    hello
    invitation
    exclusive
    increase
    women
    invest
    loss
    hair
    cash
    v1agra (that's the DIGIT ONE, not the letter "i"!)
    gains
    harder
    erection
    thick
    pharm
    surprise
    her
    urgent





    David

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  • From dkcombs@dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Thursday, July 24, 2003 02:00:14
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    One feature that mutt could add would be some way
    to mark every html or word email.

    Then I could just kill the whole bunch with one
    keystroke! (and get 99% of the spam right then!)

    (If it ain't ascii, I don't read it, thank you!)

    David

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