I would appreciate any feedback I could get on the following rules. The intent is to not only nuke messages from certain senders, but to also nuke messages that appear to be followups to those original messages.

---[ blackhole ]--- some@add\.ress ---[###########]---

---[ .mailfilter ]--- if (/^From: *!.*/ && lookup($MATCH2, "$MD/blackhole")) { # record the Message-ID in a database exception { gdbmopen ("$MD/msgid", "C") if (/^Message-ID: !.*/) { flock "msgid.lock" { gdbmstore (tolower($MATCH2), "1") } } gdbmclose } # deliver to a blackhole directory, just in case to $MD/.blackhole/ # or you could just do... #exit }

if (/^In-Reply-To: *!.*/) { exception { gdbmopen ("$MD/msgid") if ((gdbmfetch (tolower($MATCH2))) eq "1") to $MD/.blackhole/ gdbmclose } } ---[#############]---

I'm not on the mailing list, but I can follow along via the archives just fine. Or respond to my personal email and I'll post a summary of the comments. Whatever works. :-)

/pg

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