From: Stephen Kasirye (kassets@techmuk.ac.ug)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 15:58:36 CEST
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, m.andreoli@tin.it nicely wrote:
>
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Stephen Isard <S.IsardDeleteThis@ed.ac.uk>
> A: mulinux@sunsite.dk <mulinux@sunsite.dk>
> Data: venerd́ 13 aprile 2001 19.04
> Oggetto: Re: [mu SETUP] procmail
>
>
>
> >Your postmaster could put a rule in his .procmailrc file saying that
> >messages addressed to you should be delivered to you.
>
> :-) Sometimes, what's should be *the norm*, in Computer Science will become
> *the exception*. So, messages addressed to X are usually delivered to Y (the
> worste
> case) or to /dev/null (the better case).
>
>
> > The format of
> >procmail rules is fairly complicated. You can try reading the
> >procmailex man page for some examples.
>
Thanks I have looked at the procmailex, procmailsc and procmailrc pages.
Now it is upon me to sort it out.
Below is what I managed to get out of the admins procmail:
=====
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #recommended
:0
* ^Reply-To: mulinux
! kassets@techmuk.ac.ug
:0
* ^Reply-To: xfce
! kassets@techmuk.ac.ug
:0
* kassets
! kassets@techmuk.ac.ug
=====
> Incidentally, in muLinux we have both "procmail " and "formail"; these two
> tool are very well written.
>
Stephen.
>
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