Procmail - a powerful mail filter

Procmail is a "autonomous mail processor" aka "mail filter". Procmail can process incoming mail and mail folders. Procmail definitely is one of the best mail filters available.

Sample procmail setup for user foo

PROCMAIL is invoked via the file $HOME/.forward:

Create a .forward file:

"|/usr/local/bin/procmail #username" <br> where <b> username</b> is your unix username

The setup file for procmail is the $HOME/.procmailrc:

sample procmailrc

Procmail mailing lists

Subscribe:

	To: procmail-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de

Send to list (after subscription):

	To: procmail@informatik.rwth-aachen.de

Subscribe to announcement list only:

	To: procmail-announce-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de

Procmail Distribution

ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/unix/procmail/

Procmail Links

Links to other good web pages about Procmail.

Sven Gucke's Procmail page: href="http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/procmail/#sven>; Author: Sven Gucke
Timo's procmail tips and recipes [991203] Procmail page.: http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html; Author: Timo Salmi
Procmail Online Manuals (HTML) [950518]: http://www.voicenet.com/~dfma/intro.html; The maunals of procmail(1), formail(1), lockfile(1), procmailrc(5), procmailex(5), procmailsc(5) as webpages.; Maintainer: Don Melvin dfma@voicenet.com
Nancy McGough's Pages [95....,991028]: "Processing Mail with Procmail" [990225]; http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/; "Procmail Quickstart"; Primary: http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ Backup: http://www.best.com/~ii/internet/robots/procmail/qs/
Jaris Aalto's procmail tips [980120]: ftp://cs.uta.fi/pub/ssjaaa/pm-tips.html; Looks like a *huge* collection of tips. I have yet to read it.
Procmail Mini FAQ [971019]: http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/mini-faq.html; (was: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/procmail/); Author: Era Eriksson era@iki.fi (no mailto ;-)
Procmail Workshop [980416]: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/procmail/; Author: Joe Gross jgross@uiuc.edu
"A quick introduction to autoresponders" [990129]: http://www.inet-images.com/support/autoresponder.html; A procmail recipe - what else? ;-)

To add:

http://icg.stwing.upenn.edu/procmail/
http://www.best.com/~ariel/nospam/proctut.shtml

Procmail People

Alan K. Stebbens aks@hub.ucsb.edu

He is supposed to have a collection of procmail recipes.

Info by Thomas Bullinger consult@btoy1.rochester.ny.us [960417]

Send feedback on this page to

Sven Guckes guckes@math.fu-berlin.de