Here is my procmail recipe. Put it in $HOME/.procmailrc then if it is working once you start fetching mail it will show where you sorted it in $HOME/.procmaillog. On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Paul Schwebel wrote: > Thanks to the help I've gotten from this list, I'm > configuring fetchmail and procmail to retrieve and > sort my incoming mail. I'm on a single-user machine > runing 8.1. > > The fetchmail part was easy, and I think I have an > idea of how to write procmail recipe. My question is, > where do I put the .procmailrc ? > > I'm sorting mail in order to put it into different > Mail folders in different home directories. I have > fetchmail running as a daemon. It dumps the mail into > /var/spool/mail/paul. Depending on the "To:" field, > I'm going to move the mail to either my home directory > or my wife's. > > According to what I've been reading, Linux invokes > procmail if it finds the .procmailrc file in the > logged-in user's home directory. But, since I'm moving > mail into different home directories, I need procmail > to be run by root, even though either myself or my > wife will be the logged in user. How do I do this and > where do I put the .procmailrc file? > > -Paul "I can type 'man' really fast now" Schwebel > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com > > -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu
# Arthur H. Johnson II's Procmail Recipe # # This is my procmail recipe. Use the templates to configure # your mail filtering provided in the templates comments. # # Once you have your filters configured, simply copy this file # to your mail home directory with the name of .procmailrc. # If you wanted to be on the safe side, you could also run: # # touch $HOME/.procmaillog # # on your mailserver first, but that should not be necessary. # # # General Options # VERBOSE=no UMASK=077 MAILDIR=$HOME/mail LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmaillog # # Filter Templates # # Address Template: # # -- CUT HERE -- # :0: # * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] # folder # # :0: # * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] # folder # -- CUT HERE -- # # Change [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the email address you want filtered. # # # Subject Template: # # -- CUT HERE -- # :0: # * ^Subject:.*words # folder # -- CUT HERE -- # # Change words to what you want filtered from the subject. # # Filter configuration. # # Simply copy from the template and append to the end of the # following entries to create a new filter. Make sure you # uncomment the template thou! hehe # # # Death to spam and stuff im too lazy to unsubscribe from or # can't unsubscribe from # :0: * ^Subject:.*testtrash /dev/null :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null :0: * ^TO_msnbc.com /dev/null :0: * ^From:.*msnbc.com /dev/null :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null # # Filter subjects first # :0: * ^Subject:.*testproc test :0: * ^Subject:.*Cron admins :0: * ^Subject:.*webclip personal # # Now for the standard filters # :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] admins :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] admins :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdkexpert :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdkexpert :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] ltsp :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] ltsp :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^TO_window.linuxbox.private.nu saved-messages :0: * ^From:.*window.linuxbox.private.nu saved-messages :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newbie :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newbie :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] expert :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] expert :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] kde :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] yahoo :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] yahoo :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] newsletters :0: * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] ltsp :0: * ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] ltsp
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