Procmail rocks - it's the kind of program that gets under your skin and you keep coming up with new and grovvy things you can do with it! Plus it has the extra bonus that it is completely independent of your MUA, so if you switch, need to use a console or get at your mail via an IMAP server or whatever, you don't need to do any reconfiguration. If you google for "procmail tips/recipes/examples" you'll bring up a whole host of things. I personally found:
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html really helpful but there's loads out there. Postfix is really trivial to set up to use procmail to deliver mail. Don't know about the others. Dan On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:20:33PM -0600, Alex wrote: > I'm looking for a way to sort incoming mail (mail recvd from fetchmail) > easily. > > Currently, I am using a regular Redhat 8.0 setup and I have written my own > mail sorter that uses mbox format mailboxes. I realize that my current > situtation isn't very good and I would like to use something a little more > mainstream? > > I'm working on my gentoo setup and it is nearly done (after days of > compiling). > > I'm a bit fuzzy on all the aspects of Mail Delivery. It looks like > Procmail is good for sorting and filtering mail, but their site doesn't > give me a very good idea about how to configure it or sendmail/whatever > agent that feeds mail to it.. > > > Should I use sendmail/postfix/qmail? (which). Is Procmail good for > sorting mail from mailing lists into different folders? I don't need to > do anything terribly fancy... > > Could someone give me any advice they have or perhaps a good url for a > HOWTO? > > Thanks > > -Alex > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
