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Where are the recipes found in procmail RCFile?
In their most simple appearance, the recipes are simply one line regular expressions that are searched for in the header of the arriving mail. The first recipe that matches is used to determine where the mail has to go (usually a file).
What do you need to know about procmail?
Procmail is a program for filtering electronic mail. It is very useful for presorting and preprocessing large amounts of incoming mail. You can use it to sort out mail from mailing lists, to dispose of junk mail, to send automatic replies, or even to run a mailing list.
When to use a locallockfile in procmail?
A special case is if variablename is equal to ‘B’, ‘H’, ‘HB’ or ‘BH’; this merely overrides the default header/body search area defined by the initial flags on this recipe. To quote any of the above at the start of the line. If you put a second (trailing) ‘:’ on the first recipe line, then procmail will use a locallockfile (for this recipe only).
Where do I put my mail in procmail?
DEFAULT is the default place for Procmail to put your mail; this should be your regular incoming mailbox. For me and most users, this is $HOME/.mailspool/ian (except with your username); but it could be something else, such as $HOME/.Maildrop.
How to input a path with a white space?
Federico LenziFederico Lenzi 1,52233 gold badges1616 silver badges3434 bronze badges Add a comment | 6 Answers 6 ActiveOldestVotes 82 Use one of these threee variants: SOME_PATH=”/mnt/someProject/some path” SOME_PATH=’/mnt/someProject/some path’ SOME_PATH=/mnt/someProject/some\\ path Share
Is there a way to run procmail on UMBC?
Currently, these UMBC systems are already running Procmail. All you need to do is compose a special file, called .procmailrc (don’t forget that leading dot!), which describes the sorting criteria. Once you have this file in your $MAIL directory, Procmail will automatically be run on any incoming mail you receive.