Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 20:07:37 +0000 From: David Banning <sky_tracker@yahoo.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramidi@otenet.gr> Cc: David Banning <david@banning.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, William Richard <wdr@tdl.com> Subject: Re: procmail - I see the light! Message-ID: <20010518200737.A4172@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010519010829.A7103@hades.hell.gr>; from keramidi@otenet.gr on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:08:29AM %2B0300 References: <200105180234.f4I2YH649562@d.tracker> <01051723595500.35565@saffron> <20010518174819.A70045@yahoo.com> <20010519010829.A7103@hades.hell.gr>
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OK - now, I see procmail is examining the hidden part of the header, not just the header I view when I am reading it in my client. That's great. Thanks, Giorgos. There is only one problem I have remaining. I always _used_ to have my mail collect in /var/mail/$USER and my email clients look for it there, not in ~/Mail I can configure mutt to read ~/Mail but not /etc/mail So my question is: why do I have this problem? Presumably everyone else's FreeBSD has been the same as mine. So why is there this reference to ~/Mail by www.procmail.org and FreeBSD procmail users I have corresponded, and the presumption that we all store our mail there? I am missing something? On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:08:29AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 05:48:20PM +0000, David Banning wrote: > > Ok. Procmail is operational. > > Thanks for all your good teaching, William. > > > > One last problem I am having with the .procmailrc file. > > > > I have my subscription to the FreeBSD list go directly to davidbanning@yahoo.com > > So I think, no problem. I know how to set up the procmailrc file. > > So I direct it like this; > > > > :0 > > * ^To.davidbanning@somewhere.someplace > > bsd > > > > :0 > > * ^To.freebsd-questions@somewhere.someplace > > bsd > > > > and I figure all the subscription mail will go into the bsd file. But no. > > The email, while it comes to davidbanning@yahoo.com, is _not_ addressed to davidbanning@yahoo.com > > It's not always addressed to questions@freebsd.org either, sometimes it is just cc'ed to > > questions@freebsd.org > > That's why you have to use some other method to filter the freebsd-questions > mail to their separate folder. I tend to prefer teh Sender: header, and I had > my rule set up like: > > MAILDIR=$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 > > -- "Life is like a buffet; it's not good but there's plenty of it." _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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