Subject: help needed with procmail

From: [email-masked] (Stephen Dorsett)
Date: 7 Jun 1995 16:53:28 -0400

You're right. It ain't about pine. *however*, I did get the mail 
filtering FAQ which pointed me to procmail from the archive for 
this group. Close enuf ? 

Anywho, procmail does not want to work for me today. (never has, I'm
setting it up now for the first time)  In following the cookbook, 
it says to check the log file for messages. Good idea, except the 
specified logfile is not being created.

I've tried several incantations and configurations for the .procmailrc
and .forward file, to no avail. Has anyone else seen similar behavior ?

It looks like .forward is not getting accessed. I've opened my home dir
and .forward up, making everything searchable and executable. 

Our mail environment is vanilla SunOS 4.1.3_U1.

Any hints ?

TIA
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From: Aladdin Khamis <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 13:33:39 +0000 (GMT)

>Our mail environment is vanilla SunOS 4.1.3_U1.

Hi Stephen,
I attached for you three files:
1. rc.maillists
	you can look at the sample I made in it which suppose to filter 
all the incoming messages from pine-info mailing list.  You have to make 
a directory in your home directory called ".procmail".
2. .forward is also a need file, place your user-name instead of user-name.
3. .procmailrc

make sure procmail is in your path.
if you are still confused write me back and I will try to be more clear.
				Al

 >TIA

:0:
* ^TOpine-info
IN/IN.pine-info
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #username"
#Set on when debugging
VERBOSE=off

#Replace `mail' with your mail directory (Pine uses mail, Elm uses Mail)
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
     
#Directory for storing procmail log and rc files
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
     
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
#INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.testing
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.maillists

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From: "Zoli Fekete, keeper of hungarian-faq" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 07:38:09 -0400

I'm including some snippets from the FAQ's (available eg. in 
comp.answers, news.answers and the Usenet archives). I don't know what 
netcom has, but if they don't they should get it given that many of their 
competitors have it installed. In any case, it's a piece of cake to set 
it up yourself even if it's not available system-wide!
 Incidentally, as we've mentioned earlier ;-), this thread 
doesn't belong in c.m.PINE but in comp.mail.misc (or better
yet on the procmail mailing list)!

Newsgroups: comp.mail.list-admin.software, comp.answers, news.answers
Subject: Mailing list management software FAQ

Archive-name: mail/list-admin/software-faq
[...]
Stephen R. van den Berg ("AKA BuGless"), who writes both Procmail and
SmartList, provides quick and friendly support on their discussion lists.

To run SmartList, you also need Procmail.  Get the sources for both at:
<ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/Procmail/Procmail.tar.gz>
amatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/Procmail/SmartList.tar.gz>
   (replace ".gz" with ".Z" if you don't have the GNU gzip pacssion 
lists: subscribe to [email-masked] and/or
[email-masked] by writing a subscessage (any
format, even plain English) to [email-masked]

Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc, comp.sources.wanted, comp.answers, 
news.answers
Subject: 
Mail Archive Server software list Archive-name: mail/archive-servers/faq
[...]
Name:           procmail
Author:         Stephen R. van den Berg <[email-masked]>
Version:        3.03

How to get it:  - Get "procmail" from volume 43 of comp.sources.misc
                archives.
                - ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:
           s/procmail/procmail.tar.gz
                - By MIME mail, send
                  To: [email-masked]: archive get 
procmail*.tar.gz
                - By uuencoded (non-MIME) mail, send
                  To: procmail-request             Subject: archive get 
procmail*uue.*

 Zoli [email-masked] (note my old full address @bcuxs2 is retired)
"For my assured failures and derelictions, I ask pardon beforehand of my
betters and my equals in my calling." - Rudyard Kipling