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Process your email with procmail (Linux.com)

[Posted April 13, 2006 by ris]

Linux.com covers email filtering using procmail. "Procmail is a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA), meaning it can be used along with a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) such as mutt or sendmail to filter messages. Procmail processes all messages before they are delivered to your mailbox. You can have your incoming messages distributed into various folders based on preset criteria such as the subject of a message or the recipient. The use of regular expressions for creating rules and the ability to run multiple rules on messages make procmail a very precise mail filtering program."

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Posted Apr 13, 2006 22:47 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (subscriber, #774) [Link]

mutt is an MTA?!

Process your email with procmail (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 14, 2006 0:02 UTC (Fri) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312) [Link]

I like what procmail can do, but it would be much improved with a less cryptic syntax. Something more like the named.conf format...

Process your email with procmail (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 14, 2006 1:17 UTC (Fri) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link]

Try Maildrop. It's everything procmail is and more with a much better (dare I say nice) C-like syntax.

Process your email with procmail (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 14, 2006 5:52 UTC (Fri) by thedevil (guest, #32913) [Link]

maildrop may be an improvement, but it's still one more Ugly Little Language
to learn.

Why not use a general purpose language?

<plug>

http://search.cpan.org/~thedevil/Mail-Sort-2006.02.15/

A new release is coming soon (in a few days).

</plug>

Process your email with procmail (Linux.com)

Posted Apr 23, 2006 4:50 UTC (Sun) by malefic (subscriber, #37306) [Link]

There's an emerging mail filtering language standard: Sieve (http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/sieve-charter.html).