Mail deleting filter [Was:: Re: FROM ADMIN: SPAM, SPAM, SPAM eggs and SPAM]

[Bill Fink]

Hi Tim,

On Fri Feb 28 2003, Tim ODriscoll wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Bill Fink wrote:
> > On a tangentially related matter, does anyone know how to get sylpheed
> > to actually automatically delete selected messages (via a filter).  The
> > best I have managed is to route the selected messages to a Null folder.
> > I could use a cron job to rm the files in the Null folder periodically,
> > but it would be nicer if I could just get sylpheed to do this directly.
> > 
> I've got no experience of sylpheed, but can you not direct the messages to 
> the file /dev/null?

Unfortunately no.  sylpheed will only let me direct messages to a
Null folder, which is a directory.  sylpheed is like mh in that it
stores each e-mail message as a numbered file in a directory, so it
creates files Null/1, Null/2, Null/3, etc.  With this type of scheme,
I can't figure out how to redirect it all to /dev/null.

BTW I do use pine when I want to check my home mail from work via
remote login.

						-Bill