.promailrc help

[jdow]

Glad to help if I can and have the time.
{^_^}
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil" <plabonte at gmail.com>


> 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<---
>>
>>
>>
>> {^_^}