On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> Phillip Neumann wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Ok, i still cannot use procmail.
> > .forward
> > ````````````````````````
> > |exec /usr/bin/procmail
> > ``````````````````````````
I use this line in my .forward file. NOTE this is all 1 line:
"|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75
#your-user-name"
> When playing with procmail for the first time, it is good to make a
> 'Safety Net' to prevent you from losing emails. Add the following to
> the beginning of your .procmailrc
> # Safety Net
> :0 c
> backup
> :0 ic
> | cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* |sed -e 1,32d`
Great idea here for new users to procmail and to others aswell who test
new procmail recipes (-:
>
> I don't have much more helpful to add except that it looks like you
> wanted 'From' where you have 'TO' in your above example. Here is a
> snippet from my .procmailrc
Still may not work.. look at the 'From' line on the debian lists.. it is
from the sender and not the list. Try to use a header line that remains
constaint like the X-Mailing-List from all debian lists.
:0:
* ^X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
IN.Debian-User
> ######### .procmailrc #############
>
> :0:
> * ^From.*debian-user
> debian-user
---- CUT ----
> -Mitch
>
--Rob
