The procmail mail processing agent is very powerful but often confusing. Visit this powerful application with Jack Wallen, Jr. as he helps you understand procmail's sometimes archaic language. Imagine ...

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Q: I use sendmail and a POP mail server on a Linux box. I am desperately looking for a way to filter incoming messages processed by sendmail based on their subject names and enclosure names. I would ...

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there were no graphical e-mail clients. So what you had to do to get your mail was to connect a server with telnet over the network, or directly over a modem ...

Most users don't need to know any of this. If you do, or if you're interested in highly technical details, read on... Mail is received at ENCS by the Postfix SMTP agent, which, by default, hands a ...

In November 2002, I wrote an article called “Busting Spam with Bogofilter, Procmail and Mutt”. It contained a particularly handy configuration that took out a lot of the work of marking mail as spam ...

There are two ways that procmail can be set up. You can set it up so that each user can choose to use it (or not) or you can have it invoked through your mailer. We’re going to examine the first ...

Editors' Note: The following is a chapter from the book Multitool Linux, written by Michael Schwarz, Jeremy Anderson, Peter Curtis and Steven Murphy. Consult the book's web site for links, updates and ...

Ok, so I implemented a .forward file to use procmail for spam filtering. Works great filtering off spam but causes problems with just regular new messages now. Normally new email is kept in my ...

Procmail can be used to deliver email locally and is often tasked with automatically filtering and sorting email. It works really well, but creating the right rules can be a small challenge even for ...