Procmail filtering

[jdow]

From: "John Summerfied" <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>

> Lovell Mcilwain wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I seem to be having a bit of trouble getting procmail to filter e mails 
>> to individual mailboxes on my FC4 machine.
>> 
>> I am using fetchmail to poll my email to my machine and I want to use 
>> procmail rather my then my mail client to filter my e mail.  I don't 
>> have many mailboxes but I change machines often enough that its hard to 
>> keep updating my mail client filters.
>> 
>> When I tail my mail.log file it does show that .fetchmail is looking at 
>> my .forward file in my home directory so I am assuming that there is an 
>> issue with the syntax of my .procmailrc file.  Im new to using procmail 
>> so I copied and pasted some procmail examples into my .procmailrc file 
>> and gave it a whirl but no luck.
>> 
>> Any help is appreciated..
>> 
>> 
>> Here are what I have in my files:
>> 
>> .forward:
> 
> Start by removing .forward, and use the MTA (sendmail, postfix or whatever).
> 
> They're set up by default to invoke procmail.

He specifically said he was using fetchmail.

So here is the fetchmail -> procmail part of his picture.
===8<--- For account jdow
defaults mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d jdow"
set syslog
set postmaster ""
set no bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
# following is for debug.
#set logfile fetchmail_el.log
poll smtp.earthlink.net with proto POP3
   user 'jdow' there with password 'ASDFGHJKL'
   is 'jdow at XXX.YYY.ZZZ' here options pass8bits
   smtpaddress '      '
===8<---
Then you have the .procmailrc to setup.

===8<---
#############################################################################
# Necessary generic definitions
#############################################################################
DROPPRIVS=yes
VERBOSE=yes
LOGNAME=procmail

# Example folder diversion with clone so email also appears in main folder
:0c: clone.lock
* ^List-Id: .*(spamassassin\.apache.\org)
$HOME/mail/rawmbox

# Example folder diversion without clone. I'm indecisive about the real
# destination for the UOL crap.
:0:
* ^From: AntiSpam UOL <.*@uol.com.br>
#/dev/null
/$HOME/mail/uol_crap
===8<--- And so forth.

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