The Procmail Companion

Are you receiving dozens of emails each day? Feeling overwhelmed? Do you want something that will make your life easier? That will separate personal email from work email? Then Procmail Companion will show you how to control your email rather than your email controlling you. Procmail is a program that can automatically process electronic mail. It is small, fast, secure and free! It runs on Unix and Unix-like systems and is growing in popularity. It kicks in after the mail arrives on your machine and before you read the mail. With a few simple sets of instructions, or recipes, Procmail puts all messages from a photography mailing list into one mailbox and all mail from a particular set of friends into another. Emails that tell you how to 'make money fast' or asking if you would like 'to buy a time share' are thrown away and don't waste your time. This book provides pain free explanations about how to use and get the most from Procmail. Using case studies, explanations and examples this book will teach new users how to use Procmail and give advanced users tips and tricks on the more esoteric features of Procmail. Skills you will learn:

* explain the basics of how email systems work
* demonstrate where procmail fits within an email system
* demonstrate how to set up simple mail processing and filtering
* remove the mystery of procmail scoring
* demonstrate how to invoke external processing from within procmail
* explain all the features of procmail regular expressions
* provide a full and detailed reference to procmail syntax, macros, variables and diagnostic messages.

Sommaire

1. What is procmail?
2. Setting up Procmail
3. Simple filtering of email with Procmail
4. More complrx filtering using Procmail regular expression
5. Using Procmail to manage mailing lists
6. Troubleshooting
7. Invoking Procmail
8. Macros and environment variables
9. Recipe syntax
10. Cookbook

Appendix

Index