[olug] whats procmail?

[Brian Wiese]

anybody? ... hehehe?
Kent! wake up, I know you know something about procmail... lol

thanks again, any help is appreciated!...

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 06:13:02 -0600
Brian Wiese <bwiese at cotse.com> wrote:

|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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