Procmail filtering

[Lovell Mcilwain]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Sa, den 14.01.2006 schrieb Lovell Mcilwain um 16:31:
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>>I seem to be having a bit of trouble getting procmail to filter e mails 
>>to individual mailboxes on my FC4 machine.
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>>I am using fetchmail to poll my email to my machine and I want to use 
>>procmail rather my then my mail client to filter my e mail.  I don't 
>>have many mailboxes but I change machines often enough that its hard to 
>>keep updating my mail client filters.
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>>When I tail my mail.log file it does show that .fetchmail is looking at 
>>my .forward file in my home directory so I am assuming that there is an 
>>issue with the syntax of my .procmailrc file.  Im new to using procmail 
>>so I copied and pasted some procmail examples into my .procmailrc file 
>>and gave it a whirl but no luck.
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>>Any help is appreciated..
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>>Here are what I have in my files:
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>>.forward:
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>>"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #myusername"
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>Why that kind of call? I assume you run  local MTA, which is Sendmail.
>Correct? Then Procmail is called automatically and you don't need to use
>a .forward for this.
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I have gotten rid of my .forward file so this is not out of the picture.

>>.procmailrc:
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>># .procmailrc
>># routes incoming mail to appropriate mailboxes
>>VERBOSE=off
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>Why off? You are debugging, so use the power of logging verbosely.
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I turned this on so that I can start debugging.  I have not taken a look 
until Im sure that I have set up my .procmailrc file reasonably ok.

>>MAILDIR=~/mail/IMAP #elm users might use $HOME/Mail instead
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>^^^ ? Really intended?
>Be aware that "MAILDIR" does not imply to get Maildir format storage.
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I took a look at the man page and this doesn't seem to be related to the 
MailDir format of the mailbox.  The insert says
**MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail      #you'd better make sure it exists**
Which makes me think based on the location, it wants me to specify the 
directory where the mailboxes are stored that I want to send mail to via 
procmail.

>>#PMDIR=~/.procmail
>>DEFAULT=/var/mail/username
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>/var/spool/mail/<user> | /var/mail/<user> is the default INBOX spool, no
>need to set that explicitly.
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I have commented this out.

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>>LOGFILE=~/procmail.log
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>Look into your logfile for analyzing.
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>>#INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/default.rc
>>#INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/general.rc
>>#INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/lists.rc
>>#INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/guestbook.rc
>>#INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/spam.rc
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>># Put mail from mailing lists into mailboxs
>>:0:
>>* ^Subject:.*[Subject]
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>You have to escape special signs like "]".
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I have escaped the entire subject so now it reads:

* ^Subject:.*"[Subject]"


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>>Groups
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>Better use absolute paths.
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>>:0:
>>* ^From.*fedora.*list.*list.*@
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>? The Fedora list is the recipient, not the From: sender. You may want
>to catch
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>* ^Sender:.*fedora-list-bounces at redhat\.com
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>>Fedora2
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>Very verbose Procmail documentation:
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>http://pm-doc.sourceforge.net/pm-tips-body.html
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>Alexander
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