Lovell Mcilwain wrote: > Hello all, > > I seem to be having a bit of trouble getting procmail to filter e mails > to individual mailboxes on my FC4 machine. > > I am using fetchmail to poll my email to my machine and I want to use > procmail rather my then my mail client to filter my e mail. I don't > have many mailboxes but I change machines often enough that its hard to > keep updating my mail client filters. > > When I tail my mail.log file it does show that .fetchmail is looking at > my .forward file in my home directory so I am assuming that there is an > issue with the syntax of my .procmailrc file. Im new to using procmail > so I copied and pasted some procmail examples into my .procmailrc file > and gave it a whirl but no luck. > > Any help is appreciated.. > > > Here are what I have in my files: > > .forward: > > "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #myusername" > > .procmailrc: > > # .procmailrc > # routes incoming mail to appropriate mailboxes > VERBOSE=off > MAILDIR=~/mail/IMAP #elm users might use $HOME/Mail instead > #PMDIR=~/.procmail > DEFAULT=/var/mail/username > LOGFILE=~/procmail.log > #INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/default.rc > #INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/general.rc > #INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/lists.rc > #INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/guestbook.rc > #INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/spam.rc > > # Put mail from mailing lists into mailboxs > :0: > * ^Subject:.*[Subject] > Groups > > :0: > * ^From.*fedora.*list.*list.*@ > Fedora2 > > I'm sure it's not hard to fix this, but I find procmail syntax ridiculous. I found maildrop rpm will build right out of the box on fedora, and use that instead.
