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Procmail occurs as mail delivery agent (MDA) or mail filter, a program to run incoming emails in the computer, widely utilized on Unix systems. These are generally invoked from either an MTA like Sendmail;
this makes a mailprocessing event-caused. A companion-convienence formail
allows procmail to exist as utilized around load-processing in mail that already is in
your systems mailbox. Most common operations carried out by having procmail include filtering & sorting of e-mail into different folders based on data from either keywords inside from, to, subject or even even text of the mail, or sending autoreplies, however extra sophisticated operations come likewise imaginable. The most common practice is to let procmail call for an external spam filter program, such as SpamAssassin.
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Procmail Official distribution site for Procmail. Procmail Mailing List Archive Searchable MHonArc archive of the Procmail mailing list -- goes back to 1995 Procmail FAQ (cover page) Contains the FAQ, a links collection, and Quickref Procmail FTP Site Mirror site for downloading Procmail; used to be the primary master site so is likely to be reasonably up to date if ftp.procmail.org is down Filtering Mail FAQ A general introduction to mail filtering on Unix, with information about Procmail, filter, and mailfilter. (Slightly old and apparently no longer maintained, but still an excellent introduction.) Procmail Quick Reference Guide A quick reference to Procmail's recipe syntax. ii.com: Procmail Quick Start This article will quickly get you up and running with Procmail. By Nancy McGough, of Filtering FAQ fame. (Contents are partially the same as in the Filtering Mail FAQ, too.) Timo's Procmail Tips And Recipes A collection of useful tips on using Procmail. Procmail recipe generator Tk-RED is a procmail recipe generator. It uses a custom language Reciproc. It exports this language to a procmailrc file. Tk-RED is a graphical editor for writing recipes. Procmail and PGP Instructions for installing and configuring procmail and PGP for mail encryption and decryption.. |
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