How to do procmail

[Stewart Stremler]

begin  quoting Lan Barnes as of Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:00:29AM -0700:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:06:39AM -0700, Jon Wahlmann wrote:
> > Speaking of which, I've always wanted to setup an on-server filter system 
> > using procmail or whatever is appropriate so I don't have to create 
> > multiple copies of the same filters on different e-mail 
> > clients/computers.  

Then procmail is what you want.

> >                       Any hints, tips, pointers on how best to handle 
> > this?  It seems to me, from my previous looks at procmail, that it can be 
> > quite unforgiving if you make a mistake in the ordering of filter rules and 
> > the regular expressions used inside each rule.

I wonder what "unforgiving" means in this context?

> You could start by changing the topic line so that procmail discussions
> can split off this thread that won't doe and won't go to kooler. Or
> posting anew.

Whee! More Topic Drift!
 
> I share your interest in procmail hints

The kplug wiki might be a good place to start:

     http://wiki.kernel-panic.org/index.php?Procmail%20Recipes

-Stewart "Mboxes work fine if you lock 'em and don't use NFS" Stremler