Procmail filtering

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 14.01.2006 schrieb Lovell Mcilwain um 16:31:

> 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"

Why that kind of call? I assume you run  local MTA, which is Sendmail.
Correct? Then Procmail is called automatically and you don't need to use
a .forward for this.

> .procmailrc:
> 
> # .procmailrc
> # routes incoming mail to appropriate mailboxes
> VERBOSE=off

Why off? You are debugging, so use the power of logging verbosely.

> MAILDIR=~/mail/IMAP #elm users might use $HOME/Mail instead

^^^ ? Really intended?
Be aware that "MAILDIR" does not imply to get Maildir format storage.

> #PMDIR=~/.procmail
> DEFAULT=/var/mail/username

/var/spool/mail/<user> | /var/mail/<user> is the default INBOX spool, no
need to set that explicitly.

> LOGFILE=~/procmail.log

Look into your logfile for analyzing.

> #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]

You have to escape special signs like "]".

> Groups

Better use absolute paths.

> :0:
> * ^From.*fedora.*list.*list.*@

? The Fedora list is the recipient, not the From: sender. You may want
to catch

* ^Sender:.*fedora-list-bounces at redhat\.com

> Fedora2

Very verbose Procmail documentation:

http://pm-doc.sourceforge.net/pm-tips-body.html

Alexander


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