Questions tagged [procmail]
Procmail (http://procmail.org/) is a powerful Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) capable of sorting and filtering mail based on rulesets called recipes. It's rather *nix-centric, terse, mature, and proven. However, it is now unmaintained.
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Configuring Procmail with CRM114
I would like to configure the mail command with procmail in order to filter spam with CRM114 and I cannot seem to find enough information on the subject. I have set up mailx with external mail and ...
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Playing an audio file using Procmail does not work (no audio card found)
I have a strange issue on my Debian server. I am receiving mails with Postfix and "Procmail" for the user notfall. After a mail was received, the script from Procmail should play an audio ...
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How to add ",a" flag to the filename delivered in maildir by procmail? [duplicate]
I learned that by adding ",a" to the file name in a maildir, the Evolution software considers the mail as an important message. So I would like to tag some messages using Procmail but ...
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procmail recipe assistance
I know just enough about regexp to make my brain hurt and I was hoping for some assistance. I need a recipe to take any mail that doesn't have the string "ZYX" in the TO: line and dump it ...
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In procmail, how can I manipulate a subject line with two MATCH variables?
I am succeeding rewriting my subject line to have a [LIST] prepended to it: :0fhw * ^TO_[^<>@ ]+@example\.com\> * ^Subject:\/.+ | /usr/local/bin/formail -I"Subject: [LIST]$MATCH" ...
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Split messages from one inbox to another 2 inboxes based on content
is there a way via Postfix and or procmail for example or another software to forward e-mails from one inbox to another 2 inboxes where each message goes either to one inbox or the other based on ...
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How to use fetchmail with procmail (or maildrop) on a server running sendmail?
I have Amazon Linux instances in AWS EC2. They run sendmail to communicate with each other, and send outgoing mail through a SMARTHOST that is a commercial email provider. No MX records are pointing ...
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How can I test a procmail rule without sending myself an email?
I am getting a lot of spam messages from a certain country. They all have the same pattern in the source. I want to write a procmail rule to automatically move all those emails to my Spam folder. The ...
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Can procmail intercept incoming messages to a mailing list and modify it before letting it be delivered to the mailboxes of the members of the ML?
I have an email address (a mailing list actually) with a basic procmail setup enabled. Right now, the procmail just dumps incoming emails to fs. I have a use-case where I want to add a custom string ...
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procmail returning with exit code 0 even if it can't read its config file: How to prevent?
I am dealing with procmail the first time, so I apologize if the following question is stupid. Before I put procmail in production, I am doing a few basic tests. One of them yielded a totally ...
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How can I set a simple forwarding procmail rule based on FROM?
Using Procmail, I would like to add a rule that dictates: If any email comes from this specific email address, in addition to delivering it locally, also forward it to this other email address. My ...
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Procmail: Send ticket numbers to an address named "ticket@domain"?
I am looking to do the following: User sends an email to 1234@domain Procmail recognizes 1234@domain as an email sent to ticket+1234@domain Procmail recipe handles ticket number and forwards email to ...
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What is the meaning of %F, %T, and %s in fetchmail's mda option?
Browsing through web pages around the World Wide Web, I often come across ~/.fetchmailrc examples such as: poll mail.example.com port 993 proto imap user "max123" password "...
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How to run procmail in cmdline and provide .eml file as input?
Procmail failed while running my external python script on received email. After that I tried run that script manually and provide the same arguments as procmail - it passed without any problems, so I'...
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How to get a filename of copied email by procmail and pass it to a script?
I'm trying to execute script when email arrives my server and pass its filename to that script. First part is done, procmail executes script each time an email arrives. Before executing script it ...
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