Hi!
David C. Churchill has sent me this email message.
I was not asking to the list, but answering.
Thanx anyway, David :-)
Hope this helps:
----- Forwarded message from "David C. Churchill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
From: "David C. Churchill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Daniel Gonz�lez Gasull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with mail filtering and .forward
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 19:26:42 -0700
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0
Daniel,
Here's how I have my mail fitering setup:
- I use fetchmail to download my wife's mail and my mail from my ISP
using POP3
- fetchmail hands the mail off to sendmail which has procmail configured
as a local mailer (this was the default setup when I installed sendmail)
- procmail filters my wifes mail based on the rules set up in her
.procmailrc file in her home directory
- I use UW IMAP server to serve the mail on my home LAN. This allows
either my wife or myself to access our mail from any of the 4 machines on
our lan and have it be the same at each machine.
- The procmailex man page gave me everything I needed to set up my
wife's .procmailrc file. I can send you an example of my rc files if you
need them. I never had to touch my .forward file, in fact I don't have one.
I'm not sure if this helps if you need any other clarification just ask.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Gonz�lez Gasull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: help with mail filtering and .forward
>Hi!
>
>David Hajoglou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I have hear that a .forward file can contain an
>> binary executable that can perform any number of
>> things to an incomming e-mail. While a search on
>> this brings up some windows applications, I am
>> havving a hard time finding anything relating to a
>> unix environment. Does anybody have any info on
>> .forward mail filtering?
>
>I think what you are looking for is procmail.
>procmail is a program to filter email. Install the
>procmail package of your version.
>
>Also read the email-filtering-faq. I *strongly*
>recommend it. It is at ftp://rtfm.mit.edu . I
>think it was in the /usenet/comp.mail.misc/
>directory. I'm not sure 8-)
>
>Hope this helps.
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