Hi Steve --
You asked:
>Can someone point me to info for the quickest, easiest way to use procmail
>with Emacs RMAIL to separate, say, the debian list into a separate folder?
Below I'm forwarding a big hint on this topic given by Dirk Eddelbuettel
to someone else a few weeks ago. I found it quite helpful.
Regards,
Susan Kleinmann
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Date: Sat, 3 Aug 96 13:18 EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: mail-delivery-agents?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Lamar
I hope you don't mind that I put this back onto the list as other people
might wonder about this too.
Lamar> Hi, Dirk. I seem to be having some trouble getting posts to the
Lamar> debian-user list, so I'm mailing you directly.
Lamar>
Lamar> You posted something about using procmail _and_ pop to sort your
Lamar> mail. I was wondering how you invoke procmail? I, too, use
Lamar> popclient to get my mail, and I'd _love_ to be able to have procmail
Lamar> (or slocal or something) filter it for me.
It is all in the procmail manpages --- but as those are quite detailed it
hard to find as first sight. Note also that Debian procmail package has, as
many other packages, a lot of documentation in /usr/doc/<package> and
/usr/doc/example/<package>.
1. I start popclient as (indented by a TAB for readability)
popclient -s -3 -P ~/.file-with-password host.that.has.mail
to get my mail to my local machine.
2. One needs a file ~/.forward of the following form
"|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #edd"
where the end must #<user-id>" as a fallback strategy. This passes the mail
to the procmail program.
3. A file ~/.procmailrc describes the sorting rules. There are lots of
examples in the manpage, and the /usr/doc/examples/procmail directory. But as
a concrete example, here are some pieces. If it looks all to strange, than
it's probably time to review a Unix book with something on regular
expressions. I just show some entries as it is mostly repetitive
- ------------------------ ~/.procmailrc --------------------------------------
# edd 26.10.95 installed from adapted version from /usr/doc/examples/procmail
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:.
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
# use `usual' default and not this one: DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mail.in
LOGABSTRACT=all
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/log/procmail
:0: # mail To or CC ctan-ann
* (^To|^CC|^Resent-).*ctan-ann@(shsu.edu|RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE)
in.ctan-announce
:0: # mail To or CC debian-announce
* (^To|^CC|^Resent-)[EMAIL PROTECTED](debian.org|pixar.com)
in.debian-announce
:0: # mail To or CC debian-bugs, debian-bugs-done
* (^To|^CC|^Resent-).*debian-bugs(-done)[EMAIL PROTECTED](debian.org|pixar.com)
in.debian-bugs
:0: # Another one for new bugs system
* (^To|^CC|^Resent-)[EMAIL PROTECTED]
in.debian-bugs
:0: # mail To or CC debian-changes
* (^To|^CC|^Resent-)[EMAIL PROTECTED](debian.org|pixar.com)
in.debian-changes
:0: # mail To or CC debian-devel
* (^To|^CC|^Resent-)[EMAIL PROTECTED](debian.org|pixar.com)
in.debian-devel
:0: # mirror logs
* ^To: edd
* ^Subject: mirror update$
in.mirror-update
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:0: always starts a new rule section. Line with * describes rules, if there
are several they are ANDed together. The last line shows the folder into
which a message is put.
Hope this helps, Dirk
- --
Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
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