divert email, like archive, possible?

[Jeff A. Earickson]

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Denis,

Thank you, this worked.  My MailScanner.conf changes were:

%localrules-dir% = /etc/MailScanner/rules
Non Spam Actions = %localrules-dir%/nonspam.rules

and my ruleset was:

#---non-spam email delivery rules
From: joeblow at colby.edu and To: testbot at colby.edu forward jaearick at colby.edu
FromOrTo:       default  deliver

With this ruleset, if joeblow sends testbot email, then it goes to me
and does not end up in testbot's mailbox.  If I send testbot email,
it gets delivered.  This is what I wanted.  I knew MailScanner could
do this...

Julian, maybe this is worthy of the rules EXAMPLES file.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Denis Beauchemin wrote:

> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:52:43 -0500
> From: Denis Beauchemin <Denis.Beauchemin at USHERBROOKE.CA>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: divert email, like archive, possible?
> 
> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>
>> Julian,
>> 
>>    The boss just asked me if I can divert all email inbound from
>> a badguy to a certain account here, and save it to an alternate
>> mailbox.  We have a case of a nasty divorce, where the harasser is
>> elsewhere and the harassee works here.  We want to divert and save
>> the messages from the harasser and not have the harassee see them.
>> And we want other messages to the harassee flow normally.
>> 
>> Thinking that the Archive feature would do the trick, I set up an
>> archive ruleset for testing:
>> 
>>    From: joeblow at colby.edu and To: jaearick at colby.edu /var/mail/a/archive
>>    default  no
>> 
>> Then I logged on as joeblow and sent a test email to myself.  Archiving
>> worked beautifully -- it snagged the test message to the archive file, and
>> let everything else pass on.  BUT it also delivered the test message into
>> my mailbox; not what I wanted in this case.  Any way to divert specific
>> to/from email messages with MailScanner?
>> 
>> Jeff Earickson
>> Colby College
>> 
> Jeff,
>
> I think you should use the "Non Spam Actions" rule instead of the archiving 
> one:
> From: joeblow at colby.edu and To: jaearick at colby.edu forward someone at colby.edu
> default  deliver
>
> Denis
> PS: I'm not sure if you also need "delete" before the forward clause...
>
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