procmail

[Tim Currie]

Chris 'Chipper' Chiapusio wrote:

>Tim,
>
>Thanks for this documentation, it's something I've wanted to figure out 
>but haven't had the time to dig into (using cyrus and procmail together).
>
>In return I will offer procmail recipe advice for mailing lists.
>
>try to avoid using TO or FROM for mailing list recipes because you will 
>not properly filter messages cross posted to two lists that you subscribe 
>to.  In addition, I archive my mailing lists into monthly folders for easy 
>grep searches.
>
>You will want to cyrus-ize these for your use as they are mbox-centric 
>right now.
>
>#Directory for storing procmail log and rc files
>FOLDERDATE=`date  +\%b\%Y`
>FOLDERYEAR=`date  +\%Y`
>DUMMY='test -d .SM/$FOLDERYEAR || mkdir .SM/$FOLDERYEAR'
>
>:0H
>* ^List-Id:.*fedora-list.redhat.com
>{
>        :0c
>        .SM/${FOLDERYEAR}/fedora-list.${FOLDERDATE}
>                                                                                                                                             
>        :0
>        IN.fedora-list
>}
>                                                                                                                                             
>:0H
>* ^List-Id:.*fedora-announce-list.redhat.com
>{
>        :0c
>        .SM/${FOLDERYEAR}/fedora-announce-list.${FOLDERDATE}
>                                                                                                                                             
>        :0
>        $DEFAULT
>}
>                                                                                                                                             
>
>Chipper
>
>
>
>On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Tim Currie wrote:
>
>  
>
>>ok... I'm using postfix, not sendmail. Here's what i did:
>>In /etc/postfix/master.cf I added
>>
>>procmail  unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
>> flags=R user=cyrus argv=/usr/bin/procmail -t -m USER=${user} 
>>EXTENSION=${extension} /etc/procmailrc
>>
>>    
>>
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>  
>
Thanks! I had just copy-pasted my recipes from a FAQ I found; the recipe 
syntax is stil indistinguishable from Sanskrit (or sendmail, for a more 
venue-appropriate metaphor) for me, so this will give me a chance to 
experiment with it.

Thanks again,

-Tim

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