S.P. Hoeke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sat, 25 Mar 2000:
> I read something about procmail, but it was quite difficult to
> comprehend (for a newbie anyway)
There's two programs for this (that I know of), procmail and maildrop.
procmail is the old and tried-and-true program that has been around for
ages and a lot of people are familiar with. maildrop is a newcomer,
maybe a year or two old (I'm not sure). It of course claims to be
better than procmail, having learned from procmail's mistakes. :-) It
does have a different syntax than procmail, which *may* be easier to
learn than procmail's, especially if you know any (C-like) programming
languages. It does have other differing features too but you're
probably not too interested in those because either will get your mail
filtering done in practice.
In the past, I remember seeing mentions of a procmail tutorial/getting
started page on the web, or something like that. I didn't save the URL
but maybe if you search the archives, or someone can provide the URL...
Supposedly that page is a very good starting point for newcomers to
procmail. I've not seen it myself so I'm going by hearsay. I guess
this is kind of vague but hopefully knowing that there *is* help
resources out there will help you find them.
Finally, both procmail and maildrop have an example man page. procmailex
and maildropex respectively. It's very helpful.
Hope this helps,
Mikko
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