On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:05:05PM -0400, cmasters wrote:
...
| Hope you don't mind the interruption. You may have noticed my slew of
| postings about difficulties with sorting mail. I read your reponse to mean
Yes ;-).
| that I may not even require the services of procmail, as I ~am~ using exim
| as my MTA. Is this correct? I just want fairly simple pre-sorting of mail
| before I read it with mutt.
Yes. I haven't actually tried it yet since my mail is delivered to a
Solaris box that I am not an admin on and I have a quota. I might try
setting up exim for filter-only on it, but not yet.
Here's a sample .forward file that I created from my procmail recipes
after reading that part of the exim manual (as you can see, I wrote
part of the manual in my own words at the top) :
-------- .forward file -------
# Exim filter
#
# Some variable/string expansions :
# ${reply_address} : contents of Reply-To: if exists or From:
# ${sender_address} : contents of envelope sender
# ${message_headers} : all headers concatenated (with newlines)
#
# $header_<header_name>: : contents of the header <header_name>
#
#
# Filter commands :
# save <filename> [ <mode> ]
# deliver <address>
# pipe <command>
#
# if <condition> then <commands>
# [ elif <condition> then <commands> ]
# [ else <commands> ]
# endif
#
# finish
# testprint <text> : print debug info when filter is being tested
# logfile <filename>
# logwrite
# add <number> to <user var>
#
# mail [ to <address-list> ] [ cc <address_list> ] [ from <address> ]
# [ reply_to <address> ] [ subject <text> ] [ text <text> ]
# [ [ expand ] file <filename> ] [ return message ] [ log <logfile> ]
# [ once <note filename> ] [ once_repeat <time interval> ]
# vacation : a special case of 'mail', for vacation notices.
#
#
# Operators (for 'if' commands) :
#
# or
# and
# not
#
# <var> matches <regex>
# <var> does not match <regex>
#
# <var> begins <text>
# <var> does not begin <text>
#
# <var> ends <text>
# <var> does not end <text>
#
# <var> contains <string>
#
# <var> is <string>
#
# <number1> is above <number2>
# <number1> is not above <number2>
#
# <number1> is below <number2>
# <number1> is not below <number2>
#
# personal [ alias <address> ]* : shorthand check for personal mail ;
# any number of aliases can be given ;
# see docs for details
#
# ${error_message} : true when the message is a mail delivery error message
#
# foranyaddress <string> ( <condition> ) :
# iterate over list of addresses in <string> and apply <condition> ;
# ${thisaddress} is set to the address currently being processed
#
#
# debian-user
#
if $header_X-Mailing-List: contains "debian-user" then
save ~/Mail/lists/debian-user/
endif
#
# debian-python
#
if ${message_headers} contains "debian-python@lists.debian.org" then
save ~/Mail/lists/debian-python/
endif
#
# python-tutor
#
if
$header_To: contains "tutor" or
$header_Cc: contains "tutor"
then
save ~/Mail/lists/python-tutor/
endif
#
# the default action, if nothing else matches
#
save ~/Mail/filteredinbox/
As you can see it looks more like psuedo code, rather than (arbitry)
delimiters. I don't know how to do any complex regex matches like
procmail can do, but most of the time my regexes are not complex at
all.
HTH,
-D
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