%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ The Procmail package contains an autonomous mail processor. This is useful for filtering and sorting incoming mail. Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &procmail-md5sum; Download size: &procmail-size; Estimated disk space required: &procmail-buildsize; Estimated build time: &procmail-time; Install Procmail by running the following commands: make LOCKINGTEST=/tmp install && make install-suid make LOCKINGTEST=/tmp install: This prevents make from asking you where to test file-locking patterns. make install-suid: Modifies permissions of the installed files. /etc/procmailrc, ~/.procmailrc Recipes have to be written and placed in your ~/.procmailrc for execution. The procmailex man page is the starting place to learn how to write recipes. The Procmail package contains procmail, formail, lockfile and mailstat. procmail is an autonomous mail processor. It performs all the functions of a MDA (Mail Delivery Agent). formail is a filter that can be used to format mail into mailbox format. lockfile is a utility that can lock a file for single use interactively or in a script. mailstat prints a summary report of mail that has been filtered by procmail since the last time mailstat was ran.