Hi.
I am new to procmail and the list. Sorry if I ask something that is asked
and answered somewhere I should have already found it. I have looked
unsuccessfully.
My question:
I have an alias -- I'll call it 'mail-alias' here -- in /etc/aliases which
corresponds to about 20 email addresses. (The addressees work on a common
project). The alias has been on a web-page for some time, so gets a lot of
spam. I want to do some filtering of the 'mail-alias' mail, even though
there is no user 'mail-alias'. I'd like something like the following sketch
of a plan to work:
+++ sketch +++
I move all the addresses for the alias into a text file called
addresses.txt, say. Then I change the entry for mail-alias in /etc/aliases
to read
mail-alias: "|/usr/bin/procmail /path/to/some_procmail.rc_file"
and I set entries in the file '/path/to/some_procmail.rc_file' to 1) filter
out spam and 2) forward the remaining mail to the entries in addresses.txt.
+++ sketch +++
Well, I don't know if the sketch is even close. Has anyone out there done
this successfully already? I'd really appreciate some pointers. If the
sketch *is* the right sort of thing, has anybody got some help for me about
just what needs to go in the .rc file?
Thanks in advance,
John.
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John McDermott
BMS
University of St Andrews
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