hello, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 04:57:43PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: > > Promail is for filtering mails isnit? > > Yes. > > > It takes the /var/spool/mail/user file and prosess it?? > > It can do that, but I wouldn'r recommend it. Procmail is better used > as part of the mail delivery process. Which MTA (mail transfer agent) > are you using? You probably have exim, smail, sendmail or qmail; > which is it? > I use exim... > > > :0 > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > debian-english > > As you are filtering to a mailbox, you /must/ use file locking; so, > put a colon after the 0 on the first line. This is mandatory; you > will trash your mail if you don't use locking. > mmm, i just want to make me sure what a colon is... "." or "," ?? > > > :0 > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > debian-spanish > > Same here. > > > How do i make it work? First i run fetchmail to get the mails, and > > then when running `procmail' the xterm stops... > > Procmail expects to see the mail message on stdin. You'd do better by > putting procmail into the delivery process, so it will process the > messages automatically, but in order to tell you how it is done, I > must know a bit of your setup. As I asked above: which MTA are you > using? > Well i use exim... ok, now how do i put procmail in the deliver proces?? Thanks! > > Antti-Juhani > -- > %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% > NOTE: I am migrating to a new setup. There may still be problems with > my mail/news headers, so *please* trust the above addresses more than > the addresses in the headers. I hope I'll get this working ASAP. -- __________________________________________ / / / Phillip Neumann / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / _____________________/_____________________________/
