Learning procmail

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Justin Willmert <justin at jdjlab.com> writes:

 > Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
 > > I have begun the process of learning how to use procmail to filter
 > > incoming mail messages.  I see that Fedora embeds procmail into the
 > > sendmail configuration files.  What I would like to do is either find
 > > some kind of tutorial or some mechanism that I can use to bootstrap my
 > > knowledge by doing something and seeing some result, most likely in a
 > > log file (and eventually in a mail buffer).  Any suggestions?
 > >
 > > Thanks
 > >
 > > -pmr
 > >
 > >   
 > I use procmail to filter this mailing list into its own IMAP folder. If 
 > you are using IMAP, I'd be happy to send you my configuration files. 
 > It's a really simple filter and you should get results immediately (due 
 > to the high traffic volume this list gets).

Certainly.  I am using IMAP and the idea of putting the Fedora messages
(and others) into their own folders sounds like a winner to me.  

Thanks,

-pmr