auto-dbm mail storm filter?

>  Has anyone solved this before?

Dale

Yes.

Oh, you want the answer ;-)

We use mailagent, a wonderful, all-singing, all-dancing perl mail
automaton. MH is used to the 200 mail messages a day threshold, by the
author's admission. MH and mailagent can enable you to handle easily
over a thousand mail messages a day or more, as long as you do not
have to read them all that day.

mailagent sorts mail into MH, Unix or MMDF folders directly per a
rules file that you write. Then you can use your favourite MUA to view
the result. You can then use exmh with a priority sorted folder list
and task-specific buttons to just scream through the mailbox if manual
processing is required. Personally, I use it for contextual
prioritization of mail and filing of mail by mailing list. I then use
a exmh priority ordered folder list and the background unseen sequence
status checking to know exactly where I have critical mail. Then I try
to read it in priority order (hah!).

mailagent can be used to stream one drop address (config at canet.ca)
into both human readable mail and decide what to submit to a pipeline.
It can parse out bounces. It can look for loops. It can watch for
robot wars. It can stream out RIPE modification notices. You can use it
to auto-ack submissions. You can get context sensitive ack messages.
You can even build mail robots with it.

mailagent lives behind config at canet.ca and will shortly front for the
RIPE stuff. We will not have a automated mail point and a human mail
point - it will all be the same point.

mailagent is vastly more capable than slocal or procmail or deliver.
You can write perl code bits and hang them off the mailagent rules.
mailagent is the thermonuclear device of mail processing tools.

I love mailagent. It almost permits me to keep up with my highest
priority mail. mailagent is my friend. You will be impressed.

Eric Carroll	University of Toronto Network & Operations Services
		External Networking Facilities Management

PS:

To get the latest copy of mailagent, send a mail message that looks
like the following:

To: ram at acri.fr
Subject: Command

@SH maildist <your email address> cshar 3.0
@SH maildist <your email address> mailagent 3.0




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