Re: Procmail and Pine
Subject: Procmail and Pine
Date: Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 10:26:22PM -0700
In reply to:Mark Wagnon
Quoting Mark Wagnon(mwagnon1@home.com):
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get procmail to sort my messages into several folders under
> ~/mail. Right now they're all in my inbox and it's hell reading through
> them.
>
> I've read through the man pages for procmail and procmailrc, and I've
> checked out a few links from the procmail FAQ (I think). I ran across this
> link on setting up my files:
>
> http://acsweb.ucis.dal.ca/fsg/notes/procmail.html
>
> It seems pretty straight forward, but so far, nothing's getting sorted :(
>
Mark
I don't use procmail now but I also found it pretty stright forward
when I did us it. Here are some examples from my working scripts
> Here are the files that I've set up for the task of sorting my mail:
>
> .forward:
>
> "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #mwagnon1"
>
.forward
"|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit
75 wtopa"
Thats 3 years old and I really don't remember even writing it but it
did work.
> .procmailrc:
>
> VERBOSE=off
>
> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
>
> PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
>
> LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
>
> INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.debian
>
> #INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.kplug
>
> #INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.suse
>
> INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.test
>
> .procmail/rc.debian:
>
> :0:
> * ^Resent-From:debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Debian
>
> .procmail/rc.test:
>
> :0:
> * ^Subject:.*test
> * ^From.*mwagnon
> test
>
The only receipe I can find
BULKFOLDER = $MAILDIR/bulk
:0:
* ^Subject:.*(subscribe*|unsubscribe*)
$BULKFOLDER
Notice that the 3rd line tell it which folder to put main into.
Thats all I can find. I thought I had saved everything but can't find
any more. Sorry.
HTH, YMMV, HAND
--
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Thy programs run, thy syscalls done,
In kernel as it is in user!
_______________________________________________________
Wayne T. Topa <wtopa@mindspring.com>
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