Am Sa, den 14.01.2006 schrieb Lovell Mcilwain um 16:31: > 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" Why that kind of call? I assume you run local MTA, which is Sendmail. Correct? Then Procmail is called automatically and you don't need to use a .forward for this. > .procmailrc: > > # .procmailrc > # routes incoming mail to appropriate mailboxes > VERBOSE=off Why off? You are debugging, so use the power of logging verbosely. > MAILDIR=~/mail/IMAP #elm users might use $HOME/Mail instead ^^^ ? Really intended? Be aware that "MAILDIR" does not imply to get Maildir format storage. > #PMDIR=~/.procmail > DEFAULT=/var/mail/username /var/spool/mail/<user> | /var/mail/<user> is the default INBOX spool, no need to set that explicitly. > LOGFILE=~/procmail.log Look into your logfile for analyzing. > #INCLUDERC=$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] You have to escape special signs like "]". > Groups Better use absolute paths. > :0: > * ^From.*fedora.*list.*list.*@ ? The Fedora list is the recipient, not the From: sender. You may want to catch * ^Sender:.*fedora-list-bounces@redhat\.com > Fedora2 Very verbose Procmail documentation: http://pm-doc.sourceforge.net/pm-tips-body.html Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 20:10:37 up 41 days, 47 users, load average: 0.16, 0.16, 0.16
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