On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 05:07:42PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hi to all!
>
> I am using fetchmail+exim+mutt as an email system. All the incomming emails
> goes to /var/spool/mail/myaccount. I would like now to store the different
> messages in separate mailboxes files defined in /home/myaccount. I know (from
> this list! ;)) that this can be done using procmail. I have read the
> documentation, but I would really appreciate a help regarding the
> following questions:
>
> 1) How does procmail start?
first recommendation:
apt-get update
apt-get install exim-doc-html
lynx http://localhost/doc/exim/manual.html
:)
nonetheless, here's my take, which may be wrong...
in /etc/exim.conf, under TRANSPORTS you should have something like
# This transport is used for procmail
procmail_pipe:
driver = pipe
command = "/usr/bin/procmail -d ${local_part}"
return_path_add
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
check_string = "From "
escape_string = ">From "
user = $local_part
group = mail
and then, further down in the DIRECTORS section, something like
# This director runs procmail for users who have a .procmailrc file
procmail:
driver = localuser
transport = procmail_pipe
require_files = ${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail
no_verify
according to the exim_doc_html package:
> If an item in a `require_files' list does not contain any forward slash
> characters, it is taken to be the user (and optional group, separated by a
> comma) to be used for testing subsequent files in the list.
so "${local_part}:" establishes the username to use in the
checking for existence of the following items:
$home
<email sent to unknownuser@system.tld won't have
any ~unknownuser/ directory, so it'll fail>
$home/.procmailrc
<anyone who doesn't have a ~/.procmailrc file won't
automatically run procmail, either>
/usr/bin/procmail
<yes, procmail hasta exist in order to run :) >
thus any user who's got a ~/.procmailrc file, will automatically
have procmail run on any incoming mail.
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