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Re: procmail....................



On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at  4:57PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote:

Hey Phillip, a couple of things should get you set up:

> :0
> * ^TOdebian-user@lists.debian.org
> debian-english
> 
> :0
> * ^TOdebian-user-spanish@lists.debian.orgdebian-spanish
> debian-spanish

These rules won't do what you want. They should be:

:0:
* ^To:.*debian-user@lists.debian.org
debian-english

:0:
* ^To:.*debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org
debian-spanish

The extra colons tell procmail to use lockfiles, which will avoid potential
problems with receiving two pieces of mail simultaneously. The rules also
needed to be changed...the ".*" means "zero or more characters".

> How do i make it work? First i run fetchmail to get the mails, and then
> when running `procmail' the xterm stops... 

Secondly, you need to set up a .forward that sends all incoming mail
through procmail automatically. Mine looks like:

"|exec /usr/bin/procmail"

That's it...just one line. This makes procmail look at each piece of mail
that comes in.

good luck,

J


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