On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 04:57:43PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: > Promail is for filtering mails isnit?
Yes. > It takes the /var/spool/mail/user file and prosess it?? It can do that, but I wouldn'r recommend it. Procmail is better used as part of the mail delivery process. Which MTA (mail transfer agent) are you using? You probably have exim, smail, sendmail or qmail; which is it? > :0 > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > debian-english As you are filtering to a mailbox, you /must/ use file locking; so, put a colon after the 0 on the first line. This is mandatory; you will trash your mail if you don't use locking. > :0 > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > debian-spanish Same here. > How do i make it work? First i run fetchmail to get the mails, and > then when running `procmail' the xterm stops... Procmail expects to see the mail message on stdin. You'd do better by putting procmail into the delivery process, so it will process the messages automatically, but in order to tell you how it is done, I must know a bit of your setup. As I asked above: which MTA are you using? Antti-Juhani -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% NOTE: I am migrating to a new setup. There may still be problems with my mail/news headers, so *please* trust the above addresses more than the addresses in the headers. I hope I'll get this working ASAP.