From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 15: 8:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 259B537B424 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 15:08:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramidi@otenet.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a022.otenet.gr [212.205.215.22]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4IM8OO10229; Sat, 19 May 2001 01:08:24 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4IM8U107229; Sat, 19 May 2001 01:08:30 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramidi@otenet.gr) Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 01:08:29 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: David Banning Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, William Richard Subject: Re: procmail - I see the light! Message-ID: <20010519010829.A7103@hades.hell.gr> References: <200105180234.f4I2YH649562@d.tracker> <01051723595500.35565@saffron> <20010518174819.A70045@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010518174819.A70045@yahoo.com>; from sky_tracker@yahoo.com on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:48:20PM +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:48:20PM +0000, David Banning wrote: > Ok. Procmail is operational. > Thanks for all your good teaching, William. > > One last problem I am having with the .procmailrc file. > > I have my subscription to the FreeBSD list go directly to davidbanning@yahoo.com > So I think, no problem. I know how to set up the procmailrc file. > So I direct it like this; > > :0 > * ^To.davidbanning@somewhere.someplace > bsd > > :0 > * ^To.freebsd-questions@somewhere.someplace > bsd > > and I figure all the subscription mail will go into the bsd file. But no. > The email, while it comes to davidbanning@yahoo.com, is _not_ addressed to davidbanning@yahoo.com > It's not always addressed to questions@freebsd.org either, sometimes it is just cc'ed to > questions@freebsd.org That's why you have to use some other method to filter the freebsd-questions mail to their separate folder. I tend to prefer teh Sender: header, and I had my rule set up like: MAILDIR=$HOME/mail DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox :0 H * ^sender: .*owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd.questions Which relies on the presence of a Sender: header in all the mail from the majordomo of FreeBSD.org. --giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message