I had tried to install a groupware program tthat only succeded in
screwing up my mail system completly. I removed it, did an rpm -e
postscript, then re-installed postscript and got it working again, but
for some unknown reason I just can't get procmail working again. Can
someone
On Friday 22 October 2004 07:32, Russell W. Behne wrote:
I had tried to install a groupware program tthat only succeded in
screwing up my mail system completly. I removed it, did an rpm -e
postscript, then re-installed postscript and got it working again, but
for some unknown reason I just
Today at 11:51, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Friday 22 October 2004 07:32, Russell W. Behne wrote:
I had tried to install a groupware program that only succeeded in
screwing up my mail system completely. I removed it, did an rpm -e
postscript, then re-installed postscript and got it working
On Friday 22 October 2004 19:11, Russell W. Behne wrote:
Ok, sorry. I thought I had explained precisely what the problem is. Let
me try again this way:
1. everything was working fine for the past 7 years.
2. I installed the groupware program from the control panel using
`configure
I need a recipe to remove an attach from a plain HTML message I receive and
forward it to a specif folder. I need this attach's for my PDA.
They have a specific extension!
I've googled around, searched for many sites on procmail and nothing good so
far.
any help?
I need to keep the
-Original Message-
From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 12:12 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Procmail mangling my email headers,
rendering Netscape Mail/Kmail useless.
What I would really like would be a procmail recipe
Kaminsky Moshe wrote:
-Original Message-
From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Procmail mangling my email headers,
rendering Netscape Mail/Kmail useless.
Kaminsky Moshe wrote:
AFAIK, Netscape
Kaminsky Moshe wrote:
AFAIK, Netscape (and maybe also Kmail) do not work with procmail.
Netscape is not, strictly speaking, a MUA, but a whole mail system in
one program: It delivers the mail to the local machine, and does all the
redistribution and filtering by itself (I think), basically
-Original Message-
From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Procmail mangling my email headers,
rendering Netscape Mail/Kmail useless.
Kaminsky Moshe wrote:
AFAIK, Netscape (and maybe also
Help! I just don't understand what is going on with my mail system.
Let me explain.
I have two users on my mail server, who access mail remotely, via IMAP
I have been reconfiguring my mail lately, to begin incorporating filtering and
virus detection. First I need to get the
Hi, there!
For some periods, not always, I do get this kind of msg below...
And I DO lose some important mails on that! ;-(
How cain I fix that!
Using ,mdk9.1 + postfix + procmail + kmail (spamassassim somwhere in between!)
TIA!
Ricardo Castanho
=
I would just like to post these links, as they are, combined with the
input I received on this page, what finally got me to the point where I
finally kind of sort of understand how Procmail works:
http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/
http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail-faq/jimd.html
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:09, HaywireMac wrote:
I would just like to post these links, as they are, combined with the
input I received on this page, what finally got me to the point where I
finally kind of sort of understand how Procmail works:
http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:18:12 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Maybe they're using a procmail filter on ya mate...
yer s predictable... ;-)
--
HaywireMac
Registered Linux user #282046
Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org
++
Mandrake HowTo's
On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 3:01 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:39, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 1:09 pm, HaywireMac wrote:
I would just like to post these links, as they are, combined
with the input I received on this page, what finally got me to
the point
I would just like to post these links, as they are, combined with the
input I received on this page, what finally got me to the point where
I finally kind of sort of understand how Procmail works:
http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/
HaywireMac wrote:
On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 16:43:03 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Why not /dev/null?
Have you actually read through the entire RC file yet?
bows head in em-bare-ass-ment
Funnily enough, this is one of the first messages I received since a typo in my
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 12:12, HaywireMac wrote:
Why not /dev/null?
Have you actually read through the entire RC file yet?
The idea would be to collect the crap, inspect the crap, then delete the
crap...
What if something came through that WASN'T a bug and WAS important?
Uh - why not just
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 09:15 pm, HaywireMac wrote:
On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 07:35:42 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Look - it's dependent on your need and requirement.
What I want to do is implement that wunderbar procmail recipe you linked
us to, and test it out,
On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 16:43:03 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Why not /dev/null?
Have you actually read through the entire RC file yet?
bows head in em-bare-ass-ment
The idea would be to collect the crap, inspect the crap, then delete
the crap...
I generally don't want to
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:49:39 -0400
Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
This doesn't sound too hard.
To a software test engineer maybe... g
1. Run Fetchmail as root
So, if I were to follow Stephen's advice and use cron instead of
inetd, I could just su root and crontab -e to create an
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 08:06 am, HaywireMac wrote:
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:49:39 -0400
Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
This doesn't sound too hard.
To a software test engineer maybe... g
Hey, those who can't do, test. ;-}
My personal skillset consists, modestly, of being
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:01:05 -0400
Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 08:06 am, HaywireMac wrote:
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:49:39 -0400
Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
1. Run Fetchmail as root
So, if I were to follow Stephen's advice and
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 4:28 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 10:45 am, HaywireMac wrote:
IIRC, Fetchmail can pass mail through Procmail like a filter,
like so:?
postconnect procmail?
IIRC, I read this, but am not doing it myself. I would have to research to
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:25:42 +0100
Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
If you install the fetchmail-daemon RPM then fetchmail will
automatically start as a root service using /etc/fetcmailrc as its
config file.
BTW: I may have mentioned this before, but there is a writeup on my
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:28:13 -0400
Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 10:45 am, HaywireMac wrote:
IIRC, Fetchmail can pass mail through Procmail like a filter,
like so:?
postconnect procmail?
IIRC, I read this, but am not doing it myself. I
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 11:37 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 4:28 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 10:45 am, HaywireMac wrote:
IIRC, Fetchmail can pass mail through Procmail like a filter,
like so:?
postconnect procmail?
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:02:15 -0400
Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
If he really wants to try to do that, I can try to find where that was
again.
Nah, I'm gonna stick with the info you guys have provided for now, keep
it simple, right?
Thanks for all the help and explanations, I'm
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 12:00 pm, HaywireMac wrote:
...snip
How is that accomplished? That would be a procmail recipe, I assume, no?
Yes, something like this:
:0H
* ^List-Owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/var/spool/mail/user
In the above recipe, it checks headers for the List-Owner
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 02:09 pm, HaywireMac wrote:
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:51:49 -0400
Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
I don't think that it would be too hard. I could do a DNS query for
an MX record and if you don't have one, simply deny the connect. If
you are running a
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 22:06, HaywireMac wrote:
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:49:39 -0400
Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
This doesn't sound too hard.
To a software test engineer maybe... g
Ok...step by step.
1.) Download the nkvir-rc and put it in your /etc/ directory
2.) Edit the
My system mailbox is /var/spool/mail/todd; any mail that doesn't get
filtered according to my procmail recipes stays there. How could I make
those messages that fall through the filters go to my inbox folder?
Todd
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 1:45 pm, Todd Slater wrote:
My system mailbox is /var/spool/mail/todd; any mail that doesn't get
filtered according to my procmail recipes stays there. How could I make
those messages that fall through the filters go to my inbox folder?
Todd
In your procmailrc
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:45, Todd Slater wrote:
Use this directive
DEFAULT=$HOME/path/yourInbox
to set the default to your inbox.
My system mailbox is /var/spool/mail/todd; any mail that doesn't get
filtered according to my procmail recipes stays there. How could I make
those messages that
Hello Todd,
Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 5:45:56 AM, you wrote:
TS My system mailbox is /var/spool/mail/todd; any mail that doesn't get
TS filtered according to my procmail recipes stays there. How could I make
TS those messages that fall through the filters go to my inbox folder?
Try the
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:04:02 +0100
Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
In your procmailrc
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ (for example)
This would be in addition to the:
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail ?
--
HaywireMac
Registered Linux user #282046
Homepage: nodex.sytes.net
Most of the guides and tutorials I see use ~/.procmalrc as an example,
for use with Fetchmail.
Now, I would like my machine to run Fetchmail as a system service, then
have Procmail twiddle with the mail once it's been delivered to the
appropriate maildirs, ie. /var/spool/mail/[username].
Am I
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:10 pm, HaywireMac wrote:
Most of the guides and tutorials I see use ~/.procmalrc as an example,
for use with Fetchmail.
Now, I would like my machine to run Fetchmail as a system service, then
have Procmail twiddle with the mail once it's been delivered to the
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, HaywireMac wrote:
Most of the guides and tutorials I see use ~/.procmalrc as an example,
for use with Fetchmail.
Now, I would like my machine to run Fetchmail as a system service, then
have Procmail twiddle with the mail once it's been delivered to the
appropriate
On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 07:35:42 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Look - it's dependent on your need and requirement.
What I want to do is implement that wunderbar procmail recipe you linked
us to, and test it out, eventually I would like to have a mail server up
and running so that
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 11:15, HaywireMac wrote:
What I want to do is implement that wunderbar procmail recipe you linked
us to, and test it out, eventually I would like to have a mail server up
and running so that it:
1. Retrieves the mail from the ISP (fetchmail, precalls mailfilter as
1st
On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 11:53:52 +1000
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
/etc/procmailrc calls the /etc/nkvir-rc from the INCLUDERC= file - so
you have to look through the nkvir-rc and make sure you create a
/var/spool/mail/virus/ directory - other than that, it's quite cool...
Why not
I just set up procmail not long ago and I have my spam, lists, and bozos
rc files set up. How do I make it so that mails not matching anything in
those goes to the inbox? Right now, everything stays in the spool.
Todd
--
Name that tune #4: I said, There is no justice! as they led me out the
I've decided to use Mutt full-time for my mail reader. Moving from
Sylpheed-Claws, my mail is in MH format; I've installed nmh, set up
~/.procmailrc and added some recipes in ~/.procmail/rc.*.
Now, when most of my mail gets delivered to a folder inside ~/Mail and
only a stray message stays in
Hi.
On Sun 2003-03-16 at 00:03:07 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 15 March 2003 10:53 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
Hey y'all - anyone remember that I posed a PROCMAILRC a
while ago - well, as y'all know, all my mail went the way
of the wind, and if anyone can blast me a copy of it
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 00:47, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote:
Hi.
On Sun 2003-03-16 at 00:03:07 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 15 March 2003 10:53 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
Hey y'all - anyone remember that I posed a PROCMAILRC a
while ago - well, as y'all know, all my mail went the
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=procmailrc
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
Hmm. Once I tried procmail and lost a lot of mails as well :(. If you
don't set the .procmailrc correctly it can be problematic.
# It is reliably reported that this single test may kill
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 08:46, David E. Fox wrote:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=procmailrc
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
Hmm. Once I tried procmail and lost a lot of mails as well :(. If you
don't set the .procmailrc correctly it can be problematic.
Hey y'all - anyone remember that I posed a PROCMAILRC a while ago -
well, as y'all know, all my mail went the way of the wind, and if anyone
can blast me a copy of it back - cuz I'm hustling to get my system back
to specREALLY APPRECIATE!
--
Sun Mar 16 08:50:00 EST 2003
08:50:00 up 1 day,
Hi Arthur,
In your email of 10/31/2001 to the list you attached a procmail recipe to
your email. Could you please email it to me.
Thanks in advance.
B.R.
Stephen Liu
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:38:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everyone,
Is there a way to make procmail do certain rule-checks on certain times?
I set it up to forward specific things to my work mail address, but it does
not need to do that in the weekend.
Wat I can think of is 2 INCLUDERC files and a cronjob that sets up one or the
other. One empty
Hi all,
I am fighting with procmail, and am on the wrong end of the battle.
What the . is wrong with these recipes. They don't work.
Set up of the environment:
DEFAULT=$HOME/sylmail/inbox/.
MAILDIR=$HOME/sylmail/
LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
This one is supposed to catch all newbie mail
In reply to Paul's words, written Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:01:14 -0500
What the . is wrong with these recipes. They don't work.
Okay peeps, forget this one. I am dumb. Solved.
Paul
--
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on,
you are hopelessly confused.
-Walter Mondale
Here is my recipe in case you want it.
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Paul wrote:
Hi all,
I am fighting with procmail, and am on the wrong end of the battle.
What the . is wrong with these recipes. They don't work.
Set up of the environment:
DEFAULT=$HOME/sylmail/inbox/.
I just noticed that procmail on my workstations has died. Suddenly, and
unexpectedly. I was looking at mail in my in box this morning and noticed
that it should have been in another folder.
So I check the procmail.log, and the last time it was edited was on June 29th.
Two weeks ago or so.
I
Lo.
Yesterday I checked if procmail will execute a script of mine, and I
wrote .forward file, in which is line
"|exec /usr/bin/procmail #user@host". First my mail agent said that no
sendmail is installed. Ok, I installed it. Then for check I simply sent a
mail to myself(removed .forward for
Well... That doesn't work quite as I had intended. The
whole story is that the stock kmail that Mandrake 7.1 ships
with has been doing strange things to my mail, and is
generally buggy as heck. Plus a botched fetchmail run
partways thru left me w/ several hundred duplicate
messages. I finally
Hello, all.
I am trying to re-process my 'old' mail and get some procmail filters
working, such as removing duplicates, etc. Does anyone know how to take
an existing mailbox and 'feed' it back thru again? I tried 'cat inbox
/var/spool/mail/monte' which just dumped everything back in the
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Russ Pitman wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone had probs using procmail as a filter for postfix?
I'm using procmail and postfix and they're working fine... aside from
.forward and .procmailrc I didn't have to tweak any configuration files to
get them to work together.
(I did
Thanks Tom for the reply, in going over the permissions I found a dud file
in my procmail dir which caused the hangup. Stupid of me not to go over
-all- of the bits before yelling for help.
I am impressed that you never had to edit the main.cf file. I am
using the stock Mandrake 6.1 but
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Russ Pitman wrote:
Thanks Tom for the reply, in going over the permissions I found a dud file
in my procmail dir which caused the hangup. Stupid of me not to go over
-all- of the bits before yelling for help.
Don't feel bad, it took me hours to get procmail working for
Hey all I was wondering if anyone had any procmail
experience.
I want to write a simple procmail 'recipe' that would
bounce mail from certain addresses rather than just
move them to /dev/null
I would like to have a little text message ready on
my ISP's server to be sent to anyones address who
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 01:44:35PM -0600, Vic wrote:
Hey all I was wondering if anyone had any procmail
experience.
I want to write a simple procmail 'recipe' that would
bounce mail from certain addresses rather than just
move them to /dev/null
You can't bounce mail from procmail. It's
Thanx for the info, yeah they have procmail and have showed
me how to make it dump spam into /dev/null, so
I theorised that I could alter that variable to make it
do other things as well like return a message that
looked like a 'bounce' in hopes that it would at
least make it to the relay of the
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 10:38:28PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman said:
Indeed my .procmailrc was group writable... I did a chmod 644 and bam it works.
Go figure.
glad you made it...
so which will you using then, postfix or sendmail? with or without .forward?
more things to consider, you should
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 08:50:38PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman said:
I gave that a try and it didn't work, all my mail was tossed into
/var/spool/mail/hawk3 instead of being filtered by my .procmailrc. Did you
alter any of sendmail's settings so that it would use .procmailrc without
needing
what you put in your ~/.forward file? I've tried several variations, including
this one given in procmail's manpage:
"|exec /usr/bin/procmail"
And it does not work.
Try removing the exec so it looks like
"|/usr/bin/procmail"
just in case your sendmail is configured to deny exec.
That
ms.
Anyone have any ideas? If anyone has procmail working in Mandrake 6.1,
what do you have in your forward?
-JR
- Original Message -
From: Thomas J. Hamman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Procmail
Can somebody who us
On 19-Oct-99 Michael R. Batchelor wrote:
Try removing the exec so it looks like
"|/usr/bin/procmail"
just in case your sendmail is configured to deny exec.
That should dump the message directly into procmail's
standard input. Of course, you need to verify that procmail
is actually
Could somebody please point me to some documentation for setting up procmail to
filter E-mail? The man pages aren't very helpful to someone completely new to
filtering with procmail, and I've been following the Procmail Quickstart guide
at http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ but
"Thomas J. Hamman" wrote:
Could somebody please point me to some documentation for setting up procmail to
filter E-mail? The man pages aren't very helpful to someone completely new to
filtering with procmail, and I've been following the Procmail Quickstart guide
at
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:28:54PM -0400, Jim Howarth said:
I am presently attempting to setup procmail and its not sending my
messages to the appropriate place...I have followed the instructions
in the FAQ by the letter and yet it isn't processing the mail properly.
I'm pretty sure that
I'm using procmail as my mta in .fetchmailrc as I had various problems
with sendmail.
I was wondering if anyone could tell me the correct syntax to have
procmail pass a message into a particular mailbox rather than forwarding
it to a user?
currently, to forward to a user, I'd use:
"procmail -t
I am presently attempting to setup procmail and its not sending my
messages to the appropriate place...I have followed the instructions
in the FAQ by the letter and yet it isn't processing the mail properly.
I'm pretty sure that the problem is in the .forward file. Attached are
both my
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