Re: New Computer

Peter Connolly wrote:
> Finally, Todd, since it's obvious that Karl's prattle will never
> end, I'd be interested if you ever got that thread-killer working...

Here's a start, though there are surely still rough edges and broken
parts.  You get both pieces if it breaks.

Stick these recipes somewhere in your procmail config:

:0 W
* ? formail -x"From" -x"From:" -x"Sender:" -x"Reply-To:" -x"Return-Path:" \
    | egrep -is -f $HOME/.procmail/killfile
{
    # add it to the killthread cache if it's not a reply
    :0 Wic: killthread.lock
    * ? formail -c -x 'References' -x 'In-Reply-To' | grep -s .
    | formail -D 40960 $HOME/.procmail/killthread.cache

    :0
    /dev/null
}

# get rid of any threads started by people in the killfile
:0
* ? thread-kill
/dev/null

(You'll want to change /dev/null to a mailbox for testing probably.)

The thread-kill script is just a hackish shell script:

#!/bin/bash

function check_msgid() {
    cat | formail -c -x 'References' -x 'In-Reply-To' | \
    for i in $(awk '{split($0, a); for (i in a) {print a[i]}}'); do
        if grep "$i" ~/.procmail/killthread.cache &>/dev/null; then
            echo 1
            break
        fi
    done
}

[ "`check_msgid`" == "1" ] && exit 0 || exit 1

I'd be happy to hear about any improvements you make make to it.

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