Subject: Info on procmail

From: [email-masked] (Erik Farquhar)
Date: 15 Jul 1995 22:46:09 GMT

I am planning to use procmail in order to sort out my mail properly.  
Unfortunately, I was totally stumped by the man page for procmail.

I would appreciate if someone e-mailed me an FAQ on using procmail, or
alternately, pointed me to where I can find information on using it and
creating the "recipes" necessary for it to work.  

Thanks for your assistance...

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From: [email-masked] (Kevin Luster)
Date: 15 Jul 1995 16:55:51 -0700

In article <[email-masked]>,
>creating the "recipes" necessary for it to work.  

There are man pages that came with procmail for constructing recipies
try "man procmailex" for some.

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 20:28:03 -0400

On 15 Jul 1995, Erik Farquhar wrote:

| I am planning to use procmail in order to sort out my mail properly.  
| Unfortunately, I was totally stumped by the man page for procmail.
| 
| I would appreciate if someone e-mailed me an FAQ on using procmail, or
| alternately, pointed me to where I can find information on using it and
| creating the "recipes" necessary for it to work.  

    Appended is some preliminary info I sent to another person.

Paul
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    Here is a response I made to someone else on the same thing.  It's 
pretty frequently asked.  You can easily find out whether you have 
procmail.  Just enter:  procmail -v        If you have it on your system, 
procmail with answer back with some version information.  (I believe 
version 3.10 or 3.11 is the latest.)  Procmail is actually very powerful, 
and I do not begin to use all its capabilities.  However, just setting it 
up to direct incoming mail this way and that into separate folders I 
found to be quite simple.

Paul
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> [...]
> >    You need to use mail filtering software to redirect mail into folders 
> >*before* Pine gets hold of it.  Pine by itself cannot do what you want, 
> >but mail filters can (I use one).  This is a frequent question on this 
> >group, so rather than repeat, email me if you are using Unix and I'll 
> >point you.
> 
> Paul,
> 
> Could you also please e-mail me the instructions on how to redirect mail.
> I'm using Unix and pine and would like very much to sort out my e-mail.
> 
> I appreciate your effort.

    The instructions are not such that I can just pop them into an email. 
There's a little more to it than that.  First, you have to have available
software which will do the filtering! -- and there is more than one such
beast.  Probably your best bet is to get Nancy McGough's Mail Filtering
FAQ: 

URL= 
http://www/cis/ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/filtering-faq/faq.html

URL= ftp://ftp.halcyon.com/pub/ii/internet/filtering_mail_faq.txt

URL= ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/filtering-faq

or send email to:
    [email-masked]
with message:
    send usenet/news.answers/mail/filtering-faq

There are fairly complete instructions in the FAQ for setting up simple
mail filtering.  I used the instructions for procmail and had no problems
at all.  If you have procmail on your system and choose to use it, the man
pages may also be of some help, although they are a little more obscure: 

    man procmail
    man procmailrc
    man procmailex  <---- useful
    man procmailsc  (more of theoretical interest).

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 16 Jul 1995 22:47:19 GMT

>creating the "recipes" necessary for it to work.  

My Filtering Mail FAQ and lots of other procmail info are available at:

  http://www.jazzie.com/ii/internet/mailbots.html

Feedback is welcome!

Thanks,
Nancy

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From: Aladdin Khamis <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 12:24:43 +0000 (GMT)

Does any body know about a grammar check for Unix that could work under 
pine just like ispell works for spelling.

				Thanks

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