Procmail filtering

[Lovell Mcilwain]

jdow wrote:

> From: "John Summerfied" <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
>
>> 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:
>>
>>
>> Start by removing .forward, and use the MTA (sendmail, postfix or 
>> whatever).
>>
>> They're set up by default to invoke procmail.
>
The .forward has been removed.

>
> He specifically said he was using fetchmail.
>
> So here is the fetchmail -> procmail part of his picture.
> ===8<--- For account jdow
> defaults mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d jdow"
> set syslog
> set postmaster ""
> set no bouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> # following is for debug.
> #set logfile fetchmail_el.log
> poll smtp.earthlink.net with proto POP3
>   user 'jdow' there with password 'ASDFGHJKL'
>   is 'jdow at XXX.YYY.ZZZ' here options pass8bits
>   smtpaddress '      '
> ===8<---

I have edited my .fetchmailrc file to include the mda default Im not 
sure what the purpose of setting the no bouncemail or no spambounce or 
properties.  I also enabled the logfile so that I can debug if necessary.

> Then you have the .procmailrc to setup.
>
> ===8<---
> ############################################################################# 
>
> # Necessary generic definitions
> ############################################################################# 
>
> DROPPRIVS=yes
> VERBOSE=yes
> LOGNAME=procmail
>
> # Example folder diversion with clone so email also appears in main 
> folder
> :0c: clone.lock
> * ^List-Id: .*(spamassassin\.apache.\org)
> $HOME/mail/rawmbox
>
> # Example folder diversion without clone. I'm indecisive about the real
> # destination for the UOL crap.
> :0:
> * ^From: AntiSpam UOL <.*@uol.com.br>
> #/dev/null
> /$HOME/mail/uol_crap
> ===8<--- And so forth.
>
> {^_^}
>