Sorry for doing this this way. But it's late and I'm a bit tired. Below is a bunch of links and stuff from the procmail list for the person asking for a tutorial. Somewhere in here you should find what you need. Once again i apologize for forwarding this bulky message. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:58:55 +0200 (EET) From: era eriksson <era+i@iki.fi> To: procmail@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc, news.admin.net-abuse.email Followup-To: poster Subject: Procmail FAQ and Links pointer (pre-faq or pre-inf) Resent-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:00:05 +0100 (MET) Resent-From: procmail@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Archive-name-to-be: mail/procmail-faq-pointer URL: <A HREF="http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/"><A HREF="http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/</A">http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/</A</A>> Last-modified: Wed Nov 18 10:01:06 EET 1998 Posting-frequency: Every 11 days Subscription and unsubscription instructions for the Procmail mailing list are included below. The Procmail Mini-FAQ and its companion Procmail Links page are available at the following locations: Procmail Mini-FAQ: <<A HREF="http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/mini-faq.html"><A HREF="http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/mini-faq.html</A">http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/mini-faq.html</A</A>>> Procmail Links: <<A HREF="http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/links.html"><A HREF="http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/links.html</A">http://www.iki.fi/~era/procmail/links.html</A</A>>> Please view the Table of Contents for the FAQ near the end of this posting. If you have a question about Procmail, you should hopefully find it there. The following mirror sites are available: United States <<A HREF="http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail-faq/"><A HREF="http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail-faq/</A">http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail-faq/</A</A>>> <<A HREF="http://www.zer0.org/procmail/"><A HREF="http://www.zer0.org/procmail/</A">http://www.zer0.org/procmail/</A</A>>> United Kingdom <<A HREF="http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~procmail/faq/"><A HREF="http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~procmail/faq/</A">http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~procmail/faq/</A</A>>> Please use one of the mirrors if you can. If you would like to receive the FAQ by electronic mail, send a message with the words "send mini-faq.txt" (sans quotation marks) in the Subject: header to the address <era+pr@iki.fi> The Links page is not very useful if you do not have WWW access. You can receive the HTML version by e-mail, though; use the Subject line "send links.html" instead. The HTML version of the FAQ can be retreived with the Subject: send mini-faq.html My current plan is to send this out every 11 days and see how people react. If nobody reacts in any way, I will probably continue to send it out this way, and/or ultimately seek news.answers approval for this notice. /* era */ Changes to the FAQ since the previous announcement ================================================== The following change log details recent developments since this announcement was last posted. The WWW version has a full change log which goes further back. Mini-Faq: date: 1998/11/18 Link to Philip's todo list Corrections / additions by Philip Guenther (mostly what fixes to expect in what versions, but also some other good points) (Thanks!) date: 1998/11/15 The FAQ is now more than twelve times the size of version 1.1 (actually 13.1736 to be precise) What we can expect to be fixed in 3.11pre8 URL to the current snapshot (soon to be pre8); addresses of the new procmail-dev and smartlist-dev mailing lists; how to do several actions under a common condition; rewrote BCC/virtual domain/many users one mailbox section (for the better I hope; thanks to Philip and Bart for feedback on the list) Links: date: 1998/11/15 Orca DUL dial-up RBL-type list, and Chris Lewis's Unix email survey FAQ date: 1998/11/10 Philip Guenther's snapshot and todo list, and a link to the procmail-dev mailing list Quickref: date: 1998/10/23 Point out that < and \> are actually identical (thanks to rohee) How to subscribe/unsubscribe ============================ If you would like to subscribe to the Procmail mailing list, send a message containing the word "subscribe" (without the quotes (and without this parenthetical remark, too :^)) in the Subject: field to <procmail-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>. Please spend an additional second to check the spelling of that single word before you send off the message. To unsubscribe from the list, change "subscribe" to "unsubscribe". This word seems even harder to spell right than the other one. Note that these messages should not be sent to the list address <procmail@informatik> which is what you might have in your address book or similar -- mail to that address will be distributed to all the list subscribers (and make some of them very upset, if it's not about Procmail.) The FAQ contains some friendly comments on netiquette. Please read them before posting to the list. The list robot is not very tolerant of mail errors and will automatically unsubscribe you if it gets many bounces from your address. Just subscribe yourself again if this happens. (You should expect to see several message from the list per day.) I have no influence over how the list is operated. Abridged Table of Contents for the FAQ ====================================== This is a short (abridged) listing of the contents of the FAQ. Hopefully, you should find your question here, and its answer in the FAQ. * What is Procmail? -- Description, availability, and installation + How can I run an arbitrary Perl or shell script on all or selected incoming mail? + How to get answers to questions which this FAQ doesn't cover + Why am I getting spam from the Procmail list server? + I subscribed to the Procmail-L mailing list earlier but haven't seen any messages for a while. Did the listserv crash? * How do I use wildcards in Procmail? Explain file locking, please. ... and other syntax issues, including: + How can I forward to many addresses? + What's a "folder"? + What does the second colon in :0: mean? + What does "Couldn't determine implicit lockfile" mean? + What's this From_ header? + How can I do a logical OR of two conditions? + Can I list several actions under a common condition? How? + How can I test the value of a variable or argument? + Efficiency tips + Short example recipes sprinkled throughout the text * Help, I get this error message ... -- Troubleshooting tips Some highlights: + An example debugging .rc file + Known bugs, common gotchas, and funny quirks ... including, but not limited to: o Memory handling with huge messages / on FreeBSD o The regexp engine is not egrep compatible o There is no ^FROM macro o Backslash parsing is sometimes counter-intuitive o Always include a SHELL= definition + Getting the thing to run in the first place + What goes in your .forward file + Yikes! Where did my mail go?? + Why is Procmail writing to a file called *? + What are these fields that get written to the log? + Why does formail fail when looking for duplicates? + What's this about "rescued data" from a filtering recipe? + Why won't biff work right for my own folders? * How do I ...? -- Running Procmail + ... match on the BCC header? + ... implement a virtual domain? Or, how can I let several local users share the same POP mailbox at the upstream? Or, what is the most frequently made wrong assumption about mail delivery? + ... figure out who to Cc: when there are several recipients? + ... run Procmail on a file of messages? + ... trim down the From: field to just user@host? + ... know what EXITCODE to use? + ... prevent my .forward from showing in bounces? + ... extract (or kill) MIME parts from messages? + ... write a "vacation" program? An autoresponder? * Where can I learn more? -- A small links collection * Appendices + Appendix A -- Folder Formats + Appendix B -- Figuring Out the Mail Flow + Appendix C -- Procmail Mirrors - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e