Examples of using Procmail in English and their translations into German
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Colloquial
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Official
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Ecclesiastic
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Medicine
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Financial
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Ecclesiastic
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Political
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Computer
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Programming
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Official/political
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Political
New users often find the construction of recipes the most difficult part of learning to use Procmail.
The following section displays some basic procmail rules, as well as brief descriptions of what they do.
Procmail is not a spam filter on its own
Procmail also let us deal automatically with the arriving mail or the mail stored in a file.
Those mails have special headers appended to let you filter them in a special mailbox e.g. with procmail.
Procmail is especially useful in an environment where you normally communicate just in a closed group. E. g.
Procmailsc- Explains the weighted scoring technique used by Procmail to match a particular recipe to a message.
DEFAULT File where a message is saved if procmail was not able to apply any of the rules defined.
When messages match a delivering recipe, Procmail performs the specified action
Procmail is also very light weight as long as you limit the number of rules to something reasonable e.g. less than 10.
Lockfiles are very useful with Procmail to ensure that more than one process does not try to alter a message simultaneously.
SUSPEND- Sets the amount of time, in seconds, that Procmail pauses if a necessary resource, such as swap space.
indicate the beginning of a new rule which tells procmail what to do with a message.
This procmail receipe should be placed in the very first place
Although procmail(1) has been de facto standard for MDA with filter on GNU/Linux, author likes maildrop(1) now.
Whether Procmail acts upon an email message depends upon whether the message matches a specified set of conditions
W- Tells Procmail to wait for the specified filter
If Procmail is available,
Since Sendmail calls the Procmail MDA when delivering mail,
You need to manually deliver mails to the sorted mailboxes in your home directory from/var/mail/username if your home directory became full and procmail failed.