[bfe245f] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY procmail-download-http "http://www.procmail.org/procmail-&procmail-version;.tar.gz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY procmail-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.procmail.net/pub/procmail/procmail-&procmail-version;.tar.gz">
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[55c657e] | 9 | <!ENTITY procmail-md5sum "1678ea99b973eb77eda4ecf6acae53f1">
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[bfe245f] | 10 | <!ENTITY procmail-size "338 KB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY procmail-buildsize "1.5 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY procmail-time "0.38 SBU">
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| 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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[1708d1e9] | 15 | <sect1 id="procmail" xreflabel="Procmail-&procmail-version;">
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[a0f03b0] | 16 | <sect1info>
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[5cd0959d] | 17 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 18 | <date>$Date$</date>
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[a0f03b0] | 19 | </sect1info>
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[00bb024c] | 20 | <?dbhtml filename="procmail.html"?>
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[1708d1e9] | 21 | <title>Procmail-&procmail-version;</title>
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[f45b1953] | 22 |
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[bfe245f] | 23 | <sect2>
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| 24 | <title>Introduction to <application>Procmail</application></title>
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| 25 |
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[55c657e] | 26 | <para>The <application>Procmail</application> package contains an autonomous
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| 27 | mail processor. This is useful for filtering and sorting incoming mail.</para>
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[bfe245f] | 28 |
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| 29 | <sect3><title>Package information</title>
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| 30 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 31 | <listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
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| 32 | url="&procmail-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
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| 33 | <listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
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| 34 | url="&procmail-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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[55c657e] | 35 | <listitem><para>Download MD5 sum: &procmail-md5sum;</para></listitem>
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[bfe245f] | 36 | <listitem><para>Download size: &procmail-size;</para></listitem>
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[518538f] | 37 | <listitem><para>Estimated disk space required:
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[bfe245f] | 38 | &procmail-buildsize;</para></listitem>
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| 39 | <listitem><para>Estimated build time:
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| 40 | &procmail-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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| 41 | </sect3>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | </sect2>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <sect2>
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| 46 | <title>Installation of <application>Procmail</application></title>
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| 47 |
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[55c657e] | 48 | <para>Install <application>Procmail</application> by running the following
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| 49 | commands:</para>
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[bfe245f] | 50 |
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[4f9b1f7] | 51 | <screen><userinput><command>make LOCKINGTEST=/tmp install &&
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[bfe245f] | 52 | make install-suid</command></userinput></screen>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | </sect2>
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| 55 |
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| 56 | <sect2>
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| 57 | <title>Command explanations</title>
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| 58 |
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[55c657e] | 59 | <para><command>make LOCKINGTEST=/tmp install</command>: This prevents
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| 60 | <command>make</command> from asking you where to test file-locking
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| 61 | patterns.</para>
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[4f9b1f7] | 62 |
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[bfe245f] | 63 | <para><command>make install-suid</command>: Modifies permissions of
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| 64 | the installed files.</para>
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| 65 | </sect2>
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| 66 |
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| 67 | <sect2>
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| 68 | <title>Configuring <application>Procmail</application></title>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <sect3><title>Config files</title>
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| 71 | <para><filename>/etc/procmailrc</filename>,
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| 72 | <filename>~/.procmailrc</filename></para>
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| 73 | </sect3>
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| 74 |
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| 75 | <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | <para>Recipes have to be written and placed in your
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| 78 | <filename>~/.procmailrc</filename> for execution. The procmailex man
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| 79 | page is the starting place to learn how to write recipes.</para>
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| 80 | </sect3>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | </sect2>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <sect2>
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| 85 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 86 |
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[55c657e] | 87 | <para>The <application>Procmail</application> package contains
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| 88 | <command>procmail</command>,
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| 89 | <command>formail</command>,
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| 90 | <command>lockfile</command> and
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| 91 | <command>mailstat</command>.</para>
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[bfe245f] | 92 |
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| 93 | </sect2>
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| 94 |
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| 95 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 96 |
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| 97 | <sect3><title>procmail</title>
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| 98 | <para><command>procmail</command> is an autonomous mail processor. It performs
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[55c657e] | 99 | all the functions of a <acronym>MDA</acronym> (Mail Delivery
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| 100 | Agent).</para></sect3>
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[bfe245f] | 101 |
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| 102 | <sect3><title>formail</title>
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| 103 | <para><command>formail</command> is a filter that can be used to format mail
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| 104 | into mailbox format.</para></sect3>
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| 105 |
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| 106 | <sect3><title>lockfile</title>
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| 107 | <para><command>lockfile</command> is a utility that can lock a file for single
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| 108 | use interactively or in a script.</para></sect3>
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| 109 |
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| 110 | <sect3><title>mailstat</title>
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| 111 | <para><command>mailstat</command> prints a summary report of mail that has been
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| 112 | filtered by <command>procmail</command> since the last time <command>
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| 113 | mailstat</command> was ran.</para></sect3>
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| 114 |
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| 115 | </sect2>
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[f45b1953] | 116 |
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| 117 | </sect1>
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| 118 |
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