On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Arvid Warnecke
<arvid(_dot_)warnecke(_at_)tu-clausthal(_dot_)de> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:02:58PM +0100, Christian Kuhn wrote:
I'm new here, and before asking a lot of things asked here 1000
times, i'd prefer to read the FAQ. Where can i find it, and what
else have i to read?
The FAQ should be on your harddisk (somewhere like
/usr/share/doc/procmail/FAQ) There should be some other Readme's and
examples which may be helpful.
Although there is an FAQ placed online from installing procmail it covers
systems progamming issues. It doesn't cover user aspects at all. Whilst
there are also online readmes, examples, and various man pages these still
don't answer what must be FAQs for people coming fresh to procmail.
I trawled the web looking for introductory material (i.e., post-FAQ level)
but these all assume a level of compentence with and of knowledge of
procmail not held by new users. Don't get me wrong there are some
excellent resources out on the web and I'll use them once I can made head
and tail of anything beyond recipes like this:
:0 fwh
*
^Sender:(_dot_)*owner-serious-word(_at_)somehost\(_dot_)somewhere\(_dot_)on\(_dot_)the\(_dot_)planet
|formail -i "To: Prophetic Word
<owner-serious-word(_at_)somehost(_dot_)somewhere(_dot_)on(_dot_)the(_dot_)planet>"
[Yes I really do subscribe to a mailing list that sends out emails with no
recipient lines in its header. Whereas other lists form the host and
human owner do have them.]
I and perhaps others need some graded examples of how to do common stuff
like munge Reply-to: becasue we want to. Normalise Subject lines (to have
only one Re:, which will be in our native tongue, tag words for the
mailing list the messages is sent from). Although these things are
included in the excellent recipe books we can consult they are only parts
of some greater scheme.
I'm picking up some useful tips and techniques and pratfalls from this
list. But I'll know I've conquered procmail the day I can eliminate all
those pesky alternative HTML versions of message bodies so beloved by
Microsoft's custoemrs. Then I won't require an FAQ list. Until then I keep
looking.
Regards, Trevor
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