I found the procmail tutorial in the Filtering Mail FAQ, and managed to
then set up procmail to filter e-mail into side files, and I think I
somehow figured out that the syntax (in a procmail recipe) for automatically
forwarding e-mail, without comment, to another address, is:
! user(_at_)host(_dot_)domain
but I can't figure out anything else useful from the procmail and procmailex
etc. 'man' pages. I see information about 'signals' such as abort and
bounce e-mail, but don't know syntax for generating such a signal from
a procmail recipe. Also I need advice how best to automatically generate
formletter bounce-complaints, whereby the software looks up the IP number
or other key in a database, fetches the appropriate data which includes
a list of complaint/bounce addresses and a reason for shunning that place,
concatenates that fetched data with other formletter parts that never
change, and includes a copy of the bounced message at a particular place
in the bounce/complaint, and auto-mails the concatenated result.
Is there anybody willing to help a procmail-novice who is desperately
trying to automate the process of vehemently complaining about the
flood of UCE (Unsolicited Commercial advertisements via E-mail) that
is coming to me?
Or is there a long tutorial that tells one tiny step at a time how to
do the many simple things that procmail is capable of doing? The examples
in the procmail* 'man' pages are so horribly complicated as to be
inscrutable to a procmail-novice such as myself.