Procmail filtering
Neal Becker
ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 18:12:31 UTC 2006
Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I seem to be having a bit of trouble getting procmail to filter e mails
> to individual mailboxes on my FC4 machine.
>
> I am using fetchmail to poll my email to my machine and I want to use
> procmail rather my then my mail client to filter my e mail. I don't
> have many mailboxes but I change machines often enough that its hard to
> keep updating my mail client filters.
>
> When I tail my mail.log file it does show that .fetchmail is looking at
> my .forward file in my home directory so I am assuming that there is an
> issue with the syntax of my .procmailrc file. Im new to using procmail
> so I copied and pasted some procmail examples into my .procmailrc file
> and gave it a whirl but no luck.
>
> Any help is appreciated..
>
>
> Here are what I have in my files:
>
> .forward:
>
> "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #myusername"
>
> .procmailrc:
>
> # .procmailrc
> # routes incoming mail to appropriate mailboxes
> VERBOSE=off
> MAILDIR=~/mail/IMAP #elm users might use $HOME/Mail instead
> #PMDIR=~/.procmail
> DEFAULT=/var/mail/username
> LOGFILE=~/procmail.log
> #INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/default.rc
> #INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/general.rc
> #INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/lists.rc
> #INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/guestbook.rc
> #INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/spam.rc
>
> # Put mail from mailing lists into mailboxs
> :0:
> * ^Subject:.*[Subject]
> Groups
>
> :0:
> * ^From.*fedora.*list.*list.*@
> Fedora2
>
>
I'm sure it's not hard to fix this, but I find procmail syntax ridiculous.
I found maildrop rpm will build right out of the box on fedora, and use
that instead.
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