.promailrc help

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 07 July 2006 18:54, Martin Marques wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Phil wrote:
> > well there is no specific pattern for the emails... they just might show
> > up together in the same To: or CC: fileds...
> > how does normal mail handle multiple recipients? this must be possible?
>
> You have a mistaken concept of how mail filters work.
>
> When a mail comes in, procmail (if it's invoked) will read .procmailrc and
> look for matched serach patterns for each rule it has. So, the important
> thing is which order you put the rules inside .procmailrc. The ones at the
> begining get procesed first, and the ones at the bottom later.
>
> Understood?
>
BUT - you can use nested commands to process it further - if this is present 
do that, otherwise do something else.  There's lots of documentation 
available with good working samples.

These helped me:

man procmailrc
man procmailex
www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/

Anne
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