.promailrc help

[Phil]

that works... Thanks!

On 7/7/06, jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
>
> > Phil wrote:
> >> I have procmail installed and working with fetchmail.
> >> There is only one problem...
> >>
> >> If I have more than one email in the To: or CC: fileds and both these
> email
> >> addrresses are supposed to go to two different folders... they do
> not...
> >> both email go to the same folder...
> >>
> >> How do I setup .procmailrc so that it parses the entire To: or CC:
> fileds
> >> first before moving them to a directory?
> >>
> >> In the example below if an email has both support and user1 in CC: or
> To:
> >> fileds I will get two emails in the support directory....however if
> >> there is
> >> only one email address in the To: or CC: fileds the emails will go to
> the
> >> appropriate directory... any help would be great.
> >>
> >> Here is my .procmailrc file
> >>
> >> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
> >>
> >> LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log
> >> #VERBOSE=yes
> >>
> >> :0
> >> * ^From:.*postmaster at fakeemail.com*
> >> /dev/null
> >>
> >> :0
> >> * ^TOsupport@
> >> $MAILDIR/support
> >>
> >> :0
> >> * ^TOuser1@
> >> $MAILDIR/friends
> >
> > Both of these last two recipes are "delivering" recipes, which means
> > that procmail stops processing the mail when it matches one of them.
> >
> > What you could do would be to add the "c" flag to each recipe (":0 c"),
> > which would mean that the mail was copied for the purposes of those
> > recipes and processing would continue even if either or both of those
> > were matched.
> >
> > Of course, you would then find that mail for either or both of these
> > addresses went on to be processed by any further recipes in your
> > procmailrc (so it would get delivered to the default mailbox as well by
> > default). You'd need to add another recipe to prevent that if that's not
> > what you wanted.
>
> You could try something like this. It should do what you want.
> ===8<---
> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
>
> LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log
> #VERBOSE=yes
>
> :0
> * ^From:.*postmaster at fakeemail.com*
> /dev/null
>
> # Is it to both support@ and user1@
> :0
> * ^TOsupport@
> * ^TOuser1@
> {
>     # copy and deliver to support
>     :0 c
>     $MAILDIR/support
>
>     # final delivery to friends.
>     :0
>     $MAILDIR/friends
> }
>
> # Process single addresses.
> :0
> * ^TOsupport@
> $MAILDIR/support
>
> :0
> * ^TOuser1@
> $MAILDIR/friends
>
> # Presumably somewhere down here you have a final delivery address if
> # you want it somewhere other than the default.
> ===8<---
>
>
>
> {^_^}
>
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