[olug] whats procmail?

[Brian Wiese]

thanks kent, I check it out. i guess i was kind a getting fetchmail and
procmail messed up. :)

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:36:53 -0600
ktb <xyf at cox.net> wrote:

|On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 06:13:02AM -0600, Brian Wiese 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".  
|
|Here are a couple links for you -
|http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html
|
|For your friend's problem:
|http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html#newaddr
|
|Basically you bring your mail in with something like fetchmail then
|procmail sorts your mail into your mail boxes.
|
|Create a Procmail directory in your home directory.  Add a lists.rc file
|to that directory with various sorting rules such as: 
|
|:0:
|* (^TO|^CC*)misc
|o_bsd
|
|The above takes all mail CC'ed and TO "misc" and sends it to my o_bsd
|mail folder.
|
|You also need to create a .procmailrc file in your home directory
|populated with the likes of:
|
|VERBOSE=no # Set to yes when debugging
|MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail       # Make sure this directory exists!
|PMDIR=$HOME/Procmail
|LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
|INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/lists.rc
|
|There is a little more to it than that but that should give you a start.
|hth,
|kent
|
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