At 16:18 2010-06-27 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I have a file called procmailrc in my home directory but unfortunately
edited it without a backup copy. I would like to find out where I can
read about a list of the default and other environment variables
'man procmailrc' (and see the "see also" section in that manpage).
I am assuming, and hopefully not making an ass of myself, that once a
rule is inserted into the procmailrc file, procmail can be run on the
Inbox to process the email in it through the filters.
Depending upon the configuration of your host, procmail may already be
invoked for local deliveries. If you don't have a .procmailrc (note the
leading dot in the filename - it is significant), procmail will still run,
it just won't do anything other than the default delivery.
The rules I have set-up so far are in a separate 30pg file and here,
after reading the man pages have done recipes with the necessary lines
of code, albeit that some of the matching rules need a syntax check.
You may want to set up a SANDBOX and throw some saved email at the filters
first (being sure that your sandbox delivers to a different base directory
and redefines $SENDMAIL and $DEFAULT so that already recieve mail doesn't
re-enter your archives). I have a demonstration setup that you can find
via the URL in my .sig.
I would suggest deploying only a few of the recipes into the sandbox at
first, then when you've sorted through syntax issues with those (and
propogated the learned corrections to your other recipes), consider testing
with more of the recipes until you feel confident that they're doing what
they should. You don't want to enable an untested .procmailrc on a live
mailstream - doing so could lead to lost email if you have recipes that
effectively discard messages.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Procmail disclaimer: <http://www.professional.org/procmail/disclaimer.html>
Please DO NOT carbon me on list replies. I'll get my copy from the list.
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