Dianne Skoll
2015-09-17 18:41:11 UTC
Hi, all,
In addition to CanIt and MIMEDefang, I use the very capable Email::Filter
module for my personal email. It acts as a local delivery agent
and automatically sorts my mail into specific folders and does some
other magic.
Anyway, I've created and uploaded a module called Mail::ThreadKiller
to CPAN. Not indexed yet, but downloadable from:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DS/DSKOLL/Mail-ThreadKiller-1.0.tar.gz
I'll let the module description speak for itself. And if anyone is
wondering, no, I have not needed to use this module on the MIMEDefang
list. :)
Regards,
Dianne.
DESCRIPTION
This module is meant to be used within an email filter such as
Email::Filter; specifically, it should be used in a filter that is run
by a delivery agent so it runs as the particular user whose mail is
being filtered---it is not suitable as a milter or any other type of
central filter.
Mail::ThreadKiller helps you discard or otherwise redirect entire
message threads. The basic idea is as follows:
o You use whatever criteria you like to detect the beginning of an
email thread you'd like to kill. Such criteria could include the
subject, the sender, the recipient list, etc. For example, a very
common desire is to stop seeing all mail from a troublesome mailing
list poster as well as any replies to a thread started by that
poster. In this case, your initial criterion could be the
troublesome poster's email address in the From: header.
o Once you've detected the beginning of a thread, you kill the
message. You use Mail::ThreadKiller to add the Message-ID to a
Berkeley database of IDs; we call this database the persistent
database of killed threads or the kill database for short. Then
you configure your filter to dispose of the message however you
like.
o For all other messages, you ask Mail::ThreadKiller if any Message-
IDs in the "Message-ID:", "In-Reply-To:" or "References:" headers
is in the kill database. If so, Mail::ThreadKiller adds the
current Message-ID to the database and returns true; you then
dispose of the message according to your policy. If the message
does not refer to anything in the database, then Mail::ThreadKiller
does nothing and your filter continues processing normally.
o Periodically, you run the script "threadkiller-clean-db.pl" to
remove very old Message-IDs from the kill database.
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In addition to CanIt and MIMEDefang, I use the very capable Email::Filter
module for my personal email. It acts as a local delivery agent
and automatically sorts my mail into specific folders and does some
other magic.
Anyway, I've created and uploaded a module called Mail::ThreadKiller
to CPAN. Not indexed yet, but downloadable from:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DS/DSKOLL/Mail-ThreadKiller-1.0.tar.gz
I'll let the module description speak for itself. And if anyone is
wondering, no, I have not needed to use this module on the MIMEDefang
list. :)
Regards,
Dianne.
DESCRIPTION
This module is meant to be used within an email filter such as
Email::Filter; specifically, it should be used in a filter that is run
by a delivery agent so it runs as the particular user whose mail is
being filtered---it is not suitable as a milter or any other type of
central filter.
Mail::ThreadKiller helps you discard or otherwise redirect entire
message threads. The basic idea is as follows:
o You use whatever criteria you like to detect the beginning of an
email thread you'd like to kill. Such criteria could include the
subject, the sender, the recipient list, etc. For example, a very
common desire is to stop seeing all mail from a troublesome mailing
list poster as well as any replies to a thread started by that
poster. In this case, your initial criterion could be the
troublesome poster's email address in the From: header.
o Once you've detected the beginning of a thread, you kill the
message. You use Mail::ThreadKiller to add the Message-ID to a
Berkeley database of IDs; we call this database the persistent
database of killed threads or the kill database for short. Then
you configure your filter to dispose of the message however you
like.
o For all other messages, you ask Mail::ThreadKiller if any Message-
IDs in the "Message-ID:", "In-Reply-To:" or "References:" headers
is in the kill database. If so, Mail::ThreadKiller adds the
current Message-ID to the database and returns true; you then
dispose of the message according to your policy. If the message
does not refer to anything in the database, then Mail::ThreadKiller
does nothing and your filter continues processing normally.
o Periodically, you run the script "threadkiller-clean-db.pl" to
remove very old Message-IDs from the kill database.
_______________________________________________
NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above
message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it.
Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com
MIMEDefang mailing list ***@lists.roaringpenguin.com
http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang