[PLUG] procmail country question

Sandy Herring sandy at herring.org
Fri Dec 6 18:35:09 UTC 2002


p.s.    I should have pointed out that the extra goodie I added would
simulate a bounce. Since you indicated you simply want to ignore the
message, you can remove the setting of EXITCODE.

Sandy

On Fri, 06 Dec 2002, Sandy Herring wrote: 
> regexp are your friend (or worst enemy)...
> 
> 
> :0
> * ^From.*\.pl$
> {
>     LOG="(.pl) "
>     # EX_NOUSER = 67 from sysexits.h
>     EXITCODE = 67
>     :0
>     /dev/null
> }
> 
> 
> Note that the period before the "pl" is escaped so that it's not interpreted
> as a regexp (match one anything). Note also that the extended regexp token
> for end of a line "$". That's where you tripped. `man procmailrc' for more
> details.
> 
> Sandy
> 
> On Fri, 06 Dec 2002, Robby Russell wrote: 
> > If I want to ignore emails and just kill them if they come from say, ".pl"
> > How can I get the procmailrc to do that?
> > 
> > I tried the following:
> > 
> > #:0
> > #* ^From.*.pl
> > #{
> > #       LOG="(.pl) "
> > #       :0
> > #       /dev/null
> > #}
> > 
> > but it would end up blocking the plug list.
> > I'm sure it's a simple mistake on my part, I am using the same method to
> > block specific domains and thought it would work the same with the country
> > code.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > -Robby



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