Re: procmailrc help
On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
> Here's what I want to do:
>
> 1) mail addressed to me goes into the inbox (even from mailing lists)
> 2) mailing lists are separated (already working)
> 3) remaining messages go into a junk folder
>
> any ideas?
Sure. This is what I do, except for the junk part, which I've been meaning
to add for a while and just did. I notice most spam has bogus or useless
To: lines, so that makes filtering that nasty stuff all the easier.
Here's an abbreviated version of my .procmailrc:
--- SNIP ---
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # you'd better make sure it exists
# DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/default # completely optional
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/logfile # recommended
# Use the Sender: (or Resent-Sender:) line if it exists, b/c that way we
# don't have to worry about messages cc'ed to me personally when I also
# belong to the list
:0:
* ^Sender: JS Bach and other Early and Baroque Music List <BACH-LIST@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>.*
bach-list
:0:
* ^Resent-Sender: debian-announce-request.*
debian-announce
:0:
* ^Resent-Sender: debian-changes-request.*
debian-changes
:0:
* ^Resent-Sender: debian-devel-request.*
debian-devel
:0:
* ^Resent-Sender: debian-user-request.*
debian-user
# NASANews only comes from one address, so this is easy
:0:
* ^From: NASANews@hq.nasa.gov.*
nasanews
:0:
* !^To: .*branden.*
junk
--- SNIP ---
Explanation: since I use the recommended .forward:
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #branden"
Anything not processed by the .procmailrc stays in the inbox. This is what
we want. All the mailing list stuff is sorted out -- if you want for
some reason to collapse all your mailing lists into one box, I think you
can just pile all those asterisk lines into one recipe and dump them to
"mailing-list" or something.
Note the last line. I'm liberal with the "To:" field because I get mail
forwarded to the home box from all kinds of places. The ! in front of it
just says "not".
There you go.
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