Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:25:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com> To: Steven Rutter <steven@che.softaid.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: procmail (fwd) Message-ID: <199803191425.JAA04315@rstcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980319030128.16620A-100000@che.softaid.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980319030128.16620A-100000@che.softaid.net>
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>>>>> "Steven" == Steven Rutter <steven@che.softaid.net> writes:
>> As the mail from this list mounts I feel the need to use procmail. :*) I
>> created my ~/.procmailrc file correctly [I think] but it does not seem to
>> work. The manpage says that it can be started "over the .forward file" or
>> the sysadmin can set it up. It does not explain how to do either of those
>> however. I would prefer to set it up system-wide. Does anyone know how to
>> do this?
Assume procmail is in /usr/local/bin
My setup is below. The .forward file tells the local mail delivery
agent to use procmail.
Procmail will look for a file called ~/.procmailrc
My .procmailrc first does some spam checking, and then tells procmail
to read the file ~/.procmail/rc.maillists. It also logs stuff into
~/.procmail/pmlog.
The file rc.maillists has rules for separating out the messages from
different mailling lists into folders in ~/Mailfiles/LISTS/XXX.mail
You should be able to cut-n-paste stuff from the files included and
get the beginnings of a simple procmail filter.
[vshah@hal] ~> cat ~/.forward
"| IFS=' ';exec /usr/local/bin/procmail #vshah"
---------------------------------
[vshah@hal] ~> cat ~/.procmailrc
#Set on when debugging
VERBOSE=off
#Replace `mail' with your mail directory (Pine uses mail, Elm uses Mail)
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mailfiles
#Directory for storing procmail log and rc files
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
JFDIR=$PMDIR/junkfilter-export
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/pmlog
#Use the Junk filter
INCLUDERC=$JFDIR/rc.junk
:0 :
* SPAMMER ?? .
| formail -i "X-Fkey: junk" -i "X-Spammer: $SPAMMER" >> junkmail
#catch the mailing list stuff
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.maillists
---------------------------------
[vshah@hal] ~> cat ~/.procmail/rc.maillists
SHELL=/bin/sh
SENDMAIL=/usr/lib/sendmail
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin:/home/users/toconnor/bin
:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| formail -D 32768 msgid.cache
:0
* ^Sender:.*owner.*@.*freebsd.org$
{
:0:
* ^Sender:.*cvs
LISTS/freebsd-cvs.mail
:0:
* ^Sender:.*sparc
LISTS/freebsd-sparc.mail
:0:
* ^Sender:.*smp
LISTS/freebsd-smp.mail
:0:
* ^Sender:.*questions
LISTS/freebsd-questions.mail
:0 :
*^Sender:.*hackers
LISTS/freebsd-hackers.mail
:0 :
*^Sender:.*hardware
LISTS/freebsd-hardware.mail
:0 :
*^Sender:.*ports
LISTS/freebsd-ports.mail
:0 :
*^Sender:.*stable
LISTS/freebsd-stable.mail
:0 :
*^Sender:.*current
LISTS/freebsd-current.mail
}
:0 :
*^From.*owner-fvwm
LISTS/fvwm.mail
:0 :
*^From.*bujold
LISTS/dendarii.mail
---------------------------------
Hope this helps
Viren
--
Viren R. Shah
viren@rstcorp.com
Everyone was born right-handed. Only the greatest overcome it.
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