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.
>
>
> 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<---
> 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.
>
> {^_^}
>
So it loks like I have all of my logs working properly and mail is being 
looked at through procmail from what I can tell in the fetchmail and 
procmail log files that are generated in my home directory.  But it 
still looks as though procmail is not filtering the mail.  Based on me 
just looking at the log file Im still think that I am not able to set up 
the filter properly.

Fetchmail.Log shows:
procmail: [2668] Sun Jan 15 11:09:49 2006
procmail: Assigning "LOGNAME=procmail.log"
procmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=procmail.log"
procmail: Opening "procmail.log"

Procmail.Log shows:
procmail: No match on "^Sender:.*fedora.*list.*list.*@"
procmail: Bypassed locking "/var/spool/mail/lmcilwain.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/lmcilwain"
procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/lmcilwain"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: [2660] Sun Jan 15 11:04:28 2006
procmail: Notified comsat: "procmail.log at 35131897:/var/spool/mail/lmcilwain"
 From lmcilwain  Sun Jan 15 11:04:27 2006
 Subject: Re:OT: Laptop screen died
  Folder: /var/spool/mail/lmcilwain

So I guess my question at this point is, where is a good place that I 
can reference different syntax' for setting up simple filters either by 
full e mail address or a word contained in the subject line including 
how to use escape characters.  I have been googling for most of the 
morning and I have yet to see clear documentation on what syntax 
performs what function.