On Friday 07 July 2006 18:54, Martin Marques wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Phil wrote: > > well there is no specific pattern for the emails... they just might show > > up together in the same To: or CC: fileds... > > how does normal mail handle multiple recipients? this must be possible? > > You have a mistaken concept of how mail filters work. > > When a mail comes in, procmail (if it's invoked) will read .procmailrc and > look for matched serach patterns for each rule it has. So, the important > thing is which order you put the rules inside .procmailrc. The ones at the > begining get procesed first, and the ones at the bottom later. > > Understood? > BUT - you can use nested commands to process it further - if this is present do that, otherwise do something else. There's lots of documentation available with good working samples. These helped me: man procmailrc man procmailex www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ Anne
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