Re: what mailing system for me ?

[<kmark@pipeline.com>]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, mess-mate wrote:

<snip>
> Thanks, I've installed fetchmail, mailfilter, procmail, sendmail and mutt.
> Fetchmail download the mails from my ISP = ok, and put it in /var/mail/messmate.
That is your mail spool file. Thats were it goes.

> I've created $HOME/Mail to put from procmail ? my mails.
> How do I retrieve the mails from /var/mail/messmate to put them
> in ~/Mail  ?
> Thought it's automatically :(
> mess-mate
>
 you need to create a /home/messmate/.procmailrc
here is mine:
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PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail      #where sorted mail goes
DEFAULT=$HOME/mbox   #completely optional - mailbox of last resort
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from   #recommended
# this FIRST makes a backup copy
# for debugging
:0 c
$MAILDIR/backup
# put mail from nylxs-announce into mbox called
# nylxs-announce
:0
* ^To:.*nylxs-announce@nylxs.com
$MAILDIR/nylxs-announce
#
:0
* ^From:.*news@oetrends.com
$MAILDIR/oetrends
#
:0
* ^From:.*jobs@jobmail.dice.com
$MAILDIR/dice
# hints for SWEN
# checking email body (B)
:0 B
* ^Content-Type: application/X-msdownload
$MAILDIR/virus
#
:0 B
* ^Content-Type: audio/X-midi
$MAILDIR/virus
#
:0 B
* ^Content-Type: audio/X-wav
$MAILDIR/virus
# SPAM checking
:0 B
* ^.*penis
$MAILDIR/spam
#
:0 B
* ^.*cumulative path
$MAILDIR/virus
#
:0 B
* ^.*nigeria
$MAILDIR/spam
#
:0 B
* ^.*viagra
$MAILDIR/spam
:0 B
* ^.*mortgage
$MAILDIR/spam
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PLEASE NOTE:
if you make a directory, it will save as mail-dir
if you dont make a directory, it will save as an mbox.
Above is
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:0 B
* ^.*mortgage
$MAILDIR/spam
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if I create the directory /home/kevin/mail/spam, each message will be
saved in the directory /home/kevin/mail/spam as a single mail-dir file. If
I DO NOT create any directory /home/kevin/mail/spam, it will create an
mbox FILE /home/kevin/mail/spam that will contain all messages.
-Kevin