Re: using procmail with emacs RMAIL

[Ed Donovan <edonovan@world.std.com>]

Hi Steve,

I use Gnus & sometimes VM, so I can't tell you a thing about Rmail,
except that you should point at the separate spool file that procmail
will create.  How to do this so that it doesn't just chuck it back in
with the rest of your mail, I don't know, though it may be easy.

My procmail settings are mostly cribbed from the "Mail Filtering FAQ",
which I found to be very useful.  Among other places:

http://www.smartpages.com/faqs/mail/filtering-faq/faq.html 

I just copied the setup it outlines, and use these lines to catch Debian
mail:

  :0:
  * ^TOdebian-user
  debian-user.spool

  :0:
  * ^TOdebian-changes
  debian-changes.spool

Procmail uses one of those stanzas for each filter.  The '.spool' suffix
is a Gnus default that I went along with.  Following the FAQ, I have
these in "~/.procmail/rc.maillists"--in a more vanilla setup they'd be
in "~/.procmailrc".

Hth,

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Ed Donovan			edonovan@world.std.com