Re: [??] delete garbage

[Brad Howes <bhowes@cssun3.corp.mot.com>]

>>>> Thus spake 'Richard Pieri (ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu)':

 >>>>>> "KG" == Kai Grossjohann
 >>>>>> <grossjohann@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

 KG> You could (carefully!) set up an nnmail-split-methods that matches
 KG> all mails *except* the trash ones.  If there is no entry in
 KG> nnmail-split-methods for those mails, they will be quickly routed to
 KG> the bit bucket.  I think.

 RP> A better, though untested, idea is to create a split method that matches
 RP> these messages, and make the directory where they will spool to a
 RP> symbolic link to /dev/null.
[snip]

I'm all for using elisp whenever possible, but for me its just too slow to slug
thru all of the mail I get in a 24 hour period. Situations like mine call for
procmail. With it, one can siphon off the crud from your incoming mail and save
it in a log file (which just may be /dev/null). Much faster than nnmail-split.

Brad
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