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Mail Management With Procmail
By: Vikram Vaswani, (c) Melonfire
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    2003-01-16


    Table of Contents:
  • Mail Management With Procmail
  • Speaking Geek
  • Putting The Pieces Together
  • No Forwarding Address
  • Lies, Sweet Lies
  • I, Robot
  • Tweaking The Engine
  • Closing Time

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    Mail Management With Procmail
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    Tired of the sixteen terabytes of spam that confront you every morning? Looking for a way to automatically manage and filter your email? Say hello to procmail, automated message processing that's so cool, it makes you want to believe in magic again.I gotta be honest with you. I love email.

    I love the way the email system works. I love the thought of all those messages whizzing around the Internet, jumping from one host to another until they reach their destination. I love the fact that it lets me get in touch with anyone on the planet for less than the cost of a postcard. In short, I think it's the coolest thing since sliced bread.

    Managing it, however, really wipes the sunshine from my day.

    You see, when I first got hooked up to the Internet, my mail flow was limited to a couple messages per week. No one in cyberspace even knew I existed - and I liked it that way. Then I discovered mailing lists like the Internet Oracle and the Internet Tourbus, and my mailbox started getting bigger. Once people figured out I had email access, I started receiving messages from employers, family and friends in far-off places. I got on the radar of the friendly neighbourhood spammer, who though I might be interested in everything from pet food to oil-pumping machinery and graciously added me to his database...

    I'm sure this picture is familiar to you. Before long, the trickle turned into a torrent, and I started spending a good fifty minutes a day wading through the previous night's email. I needed a solution, and I needed it fast.

    That's where procmail saved me.

     
     
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