Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 05:01:02 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Eric Brueggmann <brueggma@students.uiuc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail+procmail --> ~/.INBOX Message-ID: <20000614050102.B2941@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10006121713170.15400-100000@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu>; from brueggma@students.uiuc.edu on Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 05:23:49PM -0500 References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10006121713170.15400-100000@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu>
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On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 05:23:49PM -0500, Eric Brueggmann wrote: > > My name is Eric Brueggmann and I was wondering if there is a > RECENT/relevant "HOWTO" on how to get sendmail to use procmail > to deliver mail into ~/.INBOX instead of /var/spool/mail/$ (FBSD > 4.0-STABLE)? Or is it easier to just use qmail, that puts the inbox > into "~/"? First of all, you ought to configure your sendmail to forward all mail to the procmail delivery agent. This is done by creating a .forward file that contains % cat ~/.forward |/usr/local/bin/procmail Then, you can create a .procmailrc file that uses the HOME environment variable to set up a default mailbox. For instance, I use: % cat ~/.procmailrc DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail :0 * ^delivered-to:.*questions@freebsd.org freebsd.questions ... Then, procmail will promptly deliver all the mail that does not match one of my mailing lists filters to $DEFAULT which is the same as the ~/Mailbox file used by qmail. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public key: finger keramida@ceid.upatras.gr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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