procmail tips and tricks

[Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu)]

Hal Burgiss schreef:
> Any procmail users? Anyone want to share tips on how to take back
> control of your inbox from trolls, and other lesser lights? 
> 
> Below are some recipes I've accrued over time, but would love to add
> to it. 
> 
> I also have a mutt macro that dynamically creates a procmail recipe
> based on the subject of the email. Great for killing threads that
> won't die any other way. 
> 
> # Lists annoyances.
>   :0
>   * ^Sender: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
>   {
>        LOG="ULIST: "
>        
>        # HTML enabled mail. Bad idea.
>        :0 BH
>        * ^Content-Type:.*(text/html|multipart/(alternative|mixed))
>        { LOG="HTML: "
>          
>          :0
>          /dev/null
>        }
> 
> #        # check excessive line lengths and chronic non-trimmers
> #        :0B 
> #        * ? /usr/local/bin/linelen.pl
> #        { LOG="linelen.pl: "
> # 
> #          :0:
> #          /tmp/testing.mail
> #        }
>        
>        # Oh, PLEASE!!!!
>        :0 
> #       * ^Subject: +(Re: )?unsub?scribe
>        * ^Subject: +(Re: |Fwd?: |SV: |\* )*(please |how do I)?un-?(su)?b?scr?ibe
>        /dev/null
>        
>        # Get rid of self proclaimed noobies.
>        :0 
>        * ^Subject: +(Re: |Fwd?: |SV: )*n(ew|oo|00)b(ie|y|ee)?
>        /dev/null
>        
>        # No subject, tough noogies!
>        :0 
>        * ^Subject: +(Re: |Fwd?: |SV: )*(\(no subject\))? *$
>        /dev/null
>        
>        # Bad subject, does not tell me a thing.
> #       * ^Subject:.*list digest, Vol
>        :0
>        * ^Subject:.*list digest
>        /dev/null
> 
>        :0
>        * ^Subject: +(Re: |Fwd?: |SV: )*Invalid account
>        /dev/null
>        
>        # Not descriptive enough :(
>        :0
>        * ^Subject: +(Re: |Fwd?: |SV: )*(please )?h ?e ?l ?p ?(please )?\!*$
>         { LOG="helpme: "
>          
>          :0
>          /dev/null
>         }
> 
>        # upper case test
>        :0D
>        * ^Subject: +(Re: |RE: |Fwd?: |SV: )*.*HELP
>         { LOG="helpme2: "
>          
>          :0
>          /dev/null
>         }
> 
>        :0
>        * ^Subject: +(Re: |Fwd?: |SV: )*(easy |small |quick |some)*Questions?( again)?\.*$
>         { LOG="Question: "
>          
>          :0
>          /dev/null
>         }
>         
>        :0
>        * ^Subject: +(Re: |Fwd?: |SV: )*(small |weird |strange)*problems?(\.|!)*$
>         { LOG="Problemo: "
>          
>          :0
>          /dev/null
>         }
> 
>        :0
>        * ^Subject: .*(out of (the )?office|automated response)
>        /dev/null
>        
>        :0
>        * ^Subject: +(Re: |Fwd?: |SV: )*test( message| post(ing)?)?$
>        /dev/null
>        
>        # Ed Wilts <ewilts at ewilts.org> single word subject.
>        # Bag any one word subject lines. Can't be telling me enough.
>        :0
>        * ^Subject: (Re: |Fwd?: |SV: )*[A-Za-z0-9\,\._\-\!:;\"\'\?/]+$
>         { LOG="one word: "
>          
>          :0
>          /dev/null
>         }
> 
>        # All CAPS, GMAFB ;-)
>        :0D
>        * ^Subject: (Re: |Fwd?: |RE: )*[A-Z0-9 \,\._\-\!:;\"\'\?/]+$
>         { LOG="CAPS: "
>          
>          :0
>          /dev/null
>         }
> 
>        # cluelessness
>        :0
>        * ^From: root@
>         { LOG="Rootdude: "
>          
>          :0
>          /dev/null
>         }
>         
>        # It can't be *that* damned important.
>        :0
>        * ^Subject:.*urgent
>        /dev/null
> }
> 

Interesting, and thank you for sharing.
But I wouldn't go so far as devnulling them. Your Mileage May Vary.
I think I will use your procmailrc as a base, but I think I'll use
formail to clean up the nonsense.

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