Just to be pedantic, this is not actually a 'forwardfile', it is an exim
filter file.
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 01:04:27PM +0100, Patrick wrote:
> > My .forward has all my recipes in it but I still have 2 catagories of
> > mail it never seems to catch.
> > 1. Junk mail pulled in by fetchmail but not addresses to anyone.
> > 2. Junk mail that has a valid name but is still hard to classify.
> >
> > In procmailrc there's a a DEFAULT option that chuck everything not
> > caught by recipes into a particular folder. Is there a .forward
> > equivalent?
>
> Well, anything that gets to the bottom of the forward file will be caught,
> presumably.
>
> > Junk mail almost always has a "to be removed" phrase near the bottom
> > with some spurious email harvesting address for you to send your details
> > to. Is it possible to have a recipe that searches incoming mails for
> > "to be removed" and puts them in the default folder?
>
> Yes, but:
> | $message_body: The initial portion of the body of the message. By default,
> | up to 500 characters are read into this variable, but the system
> | administrator can configure this to some other value. Newlines in the body
> | are converted into single spaces.
>
> I can't remember which variable controls this, and I can't find it in a quick
> scan of the documentation.
>
> | $message_body_end: The final portion of the body of the message, formatted
> | and limited in the same way as $message_body
>
> Might be helpful too.
>
> If you're interested, I have (shameless plug) an example of some of the
> nasty techniques I've used in filter files:
> http://colondot.net/mbm/mailfilter.shtml
>
> MBM
>
>
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