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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.
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 are directories separated by colons in procmail?
Directories are separated by colons. MAILDIR is the location of your mailboxes. $HOME stands for your home directory; therefore, this points to the .mailspool directory in my home directory. Most users have this directory, containing their incoming-mail folder, however, you should probably double-check that the directory exists.
How can I see hidden files in procmail?
To see hidden files in your directory, use the ‘-a’ option, as in ls -a. The ‘-a’ stands for “all files,” and will show you both hidden and visible files in one listing. The whole trick to Procmail is writing the .procmailrc file.
Procmail is a mail processing utility, which can help you filter your mail; sort incoming mail according to sender, Subject line, length of message, keywords in the message, etc; implement an ftp-by-mail server, and much more. Procmail is also a complete drop-in replacement for your MDA.
How was the short drop hanging carried out?
Short drop hanging was effectively universal up to around 1850 and was usually carried out in public. The prisoner could be suspended by a variety of means, from the back of a cart (or later a motor vehicle), from a horse as was sometimes used in America, or by removing the platform on which they stood,…
Where did the practice of hanging come from?
Hanging originated as a method of execution in Persia(now Iran) about 2500 years ago for male criminals only, (women were strangled at the stake for the sake of decency!) It was the method of choice in many countries as it produced a highly visible deterrent without the blood and gore of beheading.
What happens in the process of judicial hanging?
The processes of judicial hanging. There are four main forms of hanging. Short drop hanging where the prisoner drops just a few inches, and their suspended body weight and physical struggling causes the noose to tighten, normally resulting in death by strangulation or carotid or Vagal reflex.
What’s the name of the file procmail logs to?
This specifies the name of a file to use as a usage log, to which Procmail will write any diagnostic or error messages during its activity. In this example, logging is being done to /dev/null, which is kind of a system black-hole for dumping unwanted data; no logs will be kept by this .procmailrc file.