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| - | ====== Filtering incoming mail ====== | ||
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| - | **You should use procmail.** | ||
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| - | On the PCN mail server, procmail is used as the local delivery agent, and is run every time a message is delivered to you. To filter, just create a file named .procmailrc in your home directory, and place the rules you want procmail to follow in there. | ||
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| - | For example, if you want to send email from spammer@some.com to the bit bucket, you would place the following lines in your .procmailrc: | ||
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| - | <code bash> | ||
| - | :0: | ||
| - | * ^From:.*spammer@some.com | ||
| - | /dev/null | ||
| - | </code> | ||
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| - | If you want to filter mail from fred@physics.purdue.edu into its own folder, rather than INBOX, you would add the following lines to your .procmailrc: | ||
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| - | <code bash> | ||
| - | :0: | ||
| - | * ^From:.*fred@physics.purdue.edu | ||
| - | ~/Mail/fred | ||
| - | </code> | ||
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| - | Procmail is capable of many, far more complex actions than can be reasonably covered here. | ||
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| - | Further documentation can be found using the 'man' command, specifically: | ||
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| - | man procmail | ||
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| - | man procmailex | ||
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| - | man procmailrc | ||