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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Blocking e-mail from a specific address
Date: 16 May 1996 12:31:04 +0100
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Patrick D. Tiquet (ptiquet@goldcountry.com) wrote:
: This is more of a sendmail question than a bsd one... maybe someone here 
: can help me.

: I regularly get e-mail from a person that I would rather not get e-mail 
: from. And I would like sendmail just to toss e-mail from that person for 
: me into the trash... like never deliver it. And, as far as they are 
: concerned (the sender) the e-mail was delivered as usual.

: Is there some sendmail rulesets I can use to define a database to 
: accomplish this? A quick glance through the sendmail book has revealed 
: no clues.

: Please help.

I would have thought that this is up to your mail reader, not the delivery
daemon.  Sendmail's job is to deliver mail to a mailbox for the user to
subsequently pick up.  Your mail readers job is to pick up that mail and
do whatever it is that you want to do with it..... ie, delete it if it
satisfies certain criteria.

What mail reader are you using ?

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....