Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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.
I have gotten rid of my .forward file so this is not out of the picture.
.procmailrc:
# .procmailrc
# routes incoming mail to appropriate mailboxes
VERBOSE=off
Why off? You are debugging, so use the power of logging verbosely.
I turned this on so that I can start debugging. I have not taken a
look until Im sure that I have set up my .procmailrc file reasonably ok.
MAILDIR=~/mail/IMAP #elm users might use $HOME/Mail instead
^^^ ? Really intended?
Be aware that "MAILDIR" does not imply to get Maildir format storage.
I took a look at the man page and this doesn't seem to be related to
the MailDir format of the mailbox. The insert says
**MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists**
Which makes me think based on the location, it wants me to specify the
directory where the mailboxes are stored that I want to send mail to
via procmail.
#PMDIR=~/.procmail
DEFAULT=/var/mail/username
/var/spool/mail/<user> | /var/mail/<user> is the default INBOX spool, no
need to set that explicitly.
I have commented this out.
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 "]".
I have escaped the entire subject so now it reads:
* ^Subject:.*"[Subject]"
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
