On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:19:51 -0400 (EDT),
Paul O Bartlett <pobart(_at_)access(_dot_)digex(_dot_)net> wrote:
On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Ken Hooper wrote (excerpt):
The only way to learn it is to set yourself up a
.procmailrc in some account where it won't molest innocent mail, and play
and play and play.
Some people do not have and cannot readily obtain a second account
under un*x. However, if a little spare storage space is available, I
Huh? What'd you need that for? Just fire up procmail from the command
line and feed it a test message.
If you really need mail to travel outside your own domain, there are
public bounce servers you can use, or ask a friend with Procmail to
set one up for you. Or if you know a little about SMTP, it might be
easier to telnet to port 25 of your local mail server and feed in a
message from there than to actually send a real mail message from
somewhere remote. (Just set up a script to do it so you don't have to
retype all the dialog each time. Hint: find and install netcat or
expect or Perl with chat.)
The idea to save "live" mail to a backup folder makes sense, though.
(You can have that in your .procmailrc and put the part you're
tweaking in a separate file you test from the command line. Then when
the thing seems to be working, INCLUDERC= it.)
Hope this helps,
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