Mail Management With Procmail - Closing Time (
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And that's about all we have time for. In this article, I
introduced you to procmail, one of the more powerful mail processors on the *NIX
platform, and demonstrated the process of compiling and installing it to your
box. I showed you the basics of procmail recipes, explaining how they can be
used to filter messages on the basis of specific characteristics, and send them
to a mailbox, another email address or an external program. I also explained how
procmail's recipes can be used to counter spam, to automatically organize
messages from mailing lists into different mailboxes and to create email robots
that reformat, reprocess and automatically respond to messages on the
fly.
Of course, in all this, I barely scratched the tip of the iceberg -
procmail is so versatile that its applications are almost infinite, and listing
them all in a single place is well nigh impossible. The following links should
provide good starting points, however:
The procmail mailing list, at
http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/The
procmail FAQ, at
http://www.iki.fi/era/procmail/mini-faq.htmlSample
recipes, at
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.htmlUntil
next time...happy emailing!
Note: All examples in this article have been
tested on Linux/i586 with procmail 3.22. Examples are illustrative only, and are
not meant for a production environment. Melonfire provides no warranties or
support for the source code described in this article. YMMV!