Re: Suggestion to Web Administrators

[Mike Perkowitz <map@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

procmail.. the grandaddy of all mail filtering. available for
most unixes as far as i know. also slocal. 

mike

> 
> 
> >With all respect, adding such prefixes to the subject header is the
> >worst possible solution for managing listmail.
> >It either shows that you currently don't use any mailfiltering at
> >all, or filter only on subject.
> >While at the same time such a prefix means less meaningfull
> >characters in the subject line for those that do know how to filter.
> 
> I'm not going to vote either for or against subject line prefixing,
> but I would just like to point out that many of us have no way to
> do any mail filtering.  Not everyone in the world uses PC's and
> Mac's.  The other third of us use Unix workstations (from Sun, IBM,
> etc.) and we don't have many options with mailreaders.
> 
> If anyone has heard of any mailfiltering programs for Solaris, please
> let me know.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andy
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