On 24 Nov, Steve Pauly wrote:

Greetings,

Thanks to those who responded about procmail.

I was able to get it working with the example recipes okay.

This really helped: <A HREF="http://www.zer0.org/procmail/mini-faq.html"><A HREF="http://www.zer0.org/procmail/mini-faq.html</A">http://www.zer0.org/procmail/mini-faq.html</A</A>>

One a related matter: Just the other day I was struggling with Novell's Groupwise email rules and not getting anywhere. Come to find out, one of our IS staff had turned off the very feature I had tryed to implement with rules. Of course, he never bothered to tell anyone...

What a breath of fresh air procmail is. The ability to pipe an email into an arbitrary script, or just run a script based on receipt of a certain email, is incredible. What I want to experiment doing, is sending an email to my home box, and getting it to email me back a snapshot of what is going on with the system. Just to get my feet wet.

With ssh (secure shell), I was able to connect to my site and execute a script like this: ssh -l <username> <host> <my_script> but procmail seems somehow more elegant.

Ramble On!

Steve.

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As a sideline to the procmail stuff, I recently downloaded and began messing with custom spam scripts that rely on procmail. One is called junkfilter and does a pretty good job at removing some content from my mailbox. There is also a pretty good basic faq on procmail if you search on yahoo! and see Infinite Ink's link there. My immediate goal with procmail was to understand how it works and how to move email around. I like its approach and I found to make it do a few others things I wanted, that all I had to was read the procmailex man pages. -- Michael Perry mperry@basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e