Re: [newbie] Procmail mangling my email headers, rendering Netscape Mail/Kmail useless.

[robin]

Kaminsky Moshe wrote:

 

-----Original Message-----
From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Procmail mangling my email headers, 
rendering Netscape Mail/Kmail useless.

Kaminsky Moshe wrote:

   

AFAIK, Netscape (and maybe also Kmail) do not work with procmail.
Netscape is not, strictly speaking, a MUA, but a whole mail system in
one program: It delivers the mail to the local machine, and 
     

does all the
   

redistribution and filtering by itself (I think), basically 
     

performing
   

the roles of fetchmail, sendmail, procmail and a MUA. If you want to
work the traditional unix way (which IMO is better), you 
     

need to use a
   

decent MUA, such as mutt. (Then again, maybe I'm wrong, and there is
some setting that allows netscape mail to function as a MUA, but you
probably have to set this in one of the endless menus)


     

On a typical server setup, procmail kicks in before 
Netscape/Mozilla/whatever downloads your mail, so you can run 
both.  I 
set procmail to send notorious known spam to /dev/null and 
let Mozilla
handle the more subtle stuff.  Mozilla's heuristics are pretty good - 
the disadvantage is that it has to download the mail before it can 
decide it's spam.
   

Ok, but if you want to use procmail only for filtering out some
messages, you must put back in the original mailbox all the mail you
want to read with Mozilla. If that's really Mark's intent, the only
thing to do is change the line saying
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox

to

DEFAULT=$ORGMAIL

(basically reducing procmail's role to nothing, with the attached
.procmailrc). Any mail redistributed to other mailboxes will never be
seen by Mozilla.
 

That's why I said to use procmail only for the stuff that you definitely 
want to send to /dev/null (or give an error code, if you're feeling 
vindictive).

What I would really like would be a procmail recipe to identify a known 
spammer, scan the message for a telephone number, and set hylafax to fax 
them a large binary file every five minutes.

Sir Robin

--
"I declare this sentence a performative!"
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin




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