email filtering

Tossing email into the /dev/null bit bucket is fine when you know the account in question will never receive any valid form of email. You can, however, get a much finer degree of control over email and still automate the cleanup of spam by using a tool such as procmail. Procmail is a basic email filter and not nearly as difficult to set up as people imagine. Let's run through the setup and focus on a couple potential stumbling blocks.