Subject: Pine & Procmail

From: Jeff McLellan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 21:24:54 -0400

I've read that Procmail can be used as a delivery filter with Pine.  I've
found Procmail but can do nothing with it.  I have decompressed it but now
all I have is a 660KB(+/-) "Procmail" file.

I've looked for help files at several WWW locations but all I find
mentions the fact that Procmail can be used with Pine...but none explain
how to set it up in my UNIX home directory...basicly I have no clue on
what to do with it or how to set it up. 

If anyone can offer me directions to resources or help files (or just a
clue) - I'll greatly appreciate it.

Thank you,

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From: [email-masked] (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Date: 14 Aug 1995 11:19:57 GMT

>all I have is a 660KB(+/-) "Procmail" file.

You probably hold in your hands now something that is commonly known as
a "tar" file ("man tar" for details).

>what to do with it or how to set it up. 

To unpack this tar file, you could use something like:

	tar xvf procmail.tar

Once you've done that, start reading the README and INSTALL files.
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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 20 Aug 1995 16:32:20 GMT

>Once you've done that, start reading the README and INSTALL files.

And after you've installed procmail you can find out lots of info about
using it at my Mail Filtering and Robots page:

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

Good luck,
Nancy
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