Procmail filtering

[jdow]

From: "Lovell Mcilwain" <lovell.mcilwain at gmail.com>
> 
> jdow wrote:
...
>> 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.
>>
>> {^_^}
>>
> So it loks like I have all of my logs working properly and mail is being 
> looked at through procmail from what I can tell in the fetchmail and 
> procmail log files that are generated in my home directory.  But it 
> still looks as though procmail is not filtering the mail.  Based on me 
> just looking at the log file Im still think that I am not able to set up 
> the filter properly.
> 
> Fetchmail.Log shows:
> procmail: [2668] Sun Jan 15 11:09:49 2006
> procmail: Assigning "LOGNAME=procmail.log"
> procmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=procmail.log"
> procmail: Opening "procmail.log"
> 
> Procmail.Log shows:
> procmail: No match on "^Sender:.*fedora.*list.*list.*@"

This is what you need to match:
Sender: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com

How does your pattern match it? You are looking for list twice.

* ^Sender: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com

Try the above like. I think you might like it better.

> procmail: Bypassed locking "/var/spool/mail/lmcilwain.lock"
> procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/lmcilwain"
> procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/lmcilwain"
> procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
> procmail: [2660] Sun Jan 15 11:04:28 2006
> procmail: Notified comsat: "procmail.log at 35131897:/var/spool/mail/lmcilwain"
> From lmcilwain  Sun Jan 15 11:04:27 2006
> Subject: Re:OT: Laptop screen died
>  Folder: /var/spool/mail/lmcilwain
> 
> So I guess my question at this point is, where is a good place that I 
> can reference different syntax' for setting up simple filters either by 
> full e mail address or a word contained in the subject line including 
> how to use escape characters.  I have been googling for most of the 
> morning and I have yet to see clear documentation on what syntax 
> performs what function.

Two excellent man files are:
man procmailrc
and
man procmailex

The second one is examples, some pretty exotic. They can help you get going.
{^_^}