Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)
Hi,
__> dpkg -s mailagent
Package: mailagent
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 1140
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Version: 3.63-1
Depends: libc6, perl, sendmail | smail | mail-transport-agent
Description: An automatic mail-processing tool
Mailagent allows you to process your mail automatically. This has
far more functionality than procmail, and is easier to configure
(providing, of course, that you grok perl). As a mail processing
tool, this slices, it dices, it ...
.
Given a set of lex-like rules, you are able to file mails to specific
folders (plain Unix-style folders and also MMDF and MH ones), forward
messages to a third person, pipe a message to a command or even post
the message to a newsgroup.
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It is also possible to process messages containing some commands.
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You may also set up a vacation program, which will automatically
answer your mail while you are not there, but more flexibly than the
Unix command of the same name. You only need to supply a message to
be sent and the frequency at which this will occur. Some simple macro
substitutions allow you to re-use some parts of the mail header into
your vacation message, for a more personalized reply.
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You may also set up a generic mail server, without the hassle of the
lower-level concerns like error recovery, logging or command parsing.
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The mailagent is not usually invoked manually but is rather called
via the filter program, which is in turn invoked by sendmail. That
means you must have sendmail/smail on your system to use this. You
also must have perl to run the mailagent scripts.
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It is possible to extend the mailagent filtering commands by
implementing them in perl and then having them automagically loaded
when used.
manoj
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