[olug] whats procmail?

[Brian Wiese]

Ok, I've kinda heard about this thing called 'procmail' for some time now,
and I'm sure you've all heard of it too, right? ;)  Well, I'm still
wondering how it works and what it does.

It seems to be a filter for email message, so you can set up rules to do
certain things and all when an email comes in.  But could someone please
give me the 1,2,3 of how this works?  Do you configure procmail to 'get'
your email from your pop3 accounts (so you have to tell it your pop3
account name, pop3 address, and password..) or does one's email client do
that... and somehow procmail gets run when another program 'gets' your
emails.  I've been lookn around the man pages and all and dont see
anything about pop3 account settings for procmail.

Problem is this... and I'm wondering if procmail is my answer.
My friend has several pop3 email accounts he doesnt use much anymore, and
wants to stop using them.  But he wants a setup so that whenever the other
accounts receive a message, an automatic reply is sent out saying ".. stop
sending mail here, send it to me at example.com".  

What do you guys/gals? think?  Is procmail a solution or is there a better
one?

thanks in advance.

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Brian Wiese
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bwiese at cotse.net
"FREEDOM!"  - Braveheart

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