Changeset ed64de8 for basicnet/mailnews/procmail

Timestamp:

08/02/2002 07:17:31 PM (22 years ago)

Author:

Larry Lawrence <larry@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, v1_0, v5_0, v5_0-pre1, v5_1, v5_1-pre1, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

b9139e21

Parents:

3823a504

Message:

complete procmail

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@49 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Location:

basicnet/mailnews/procmail

Files:

• procmail-config.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• procmail-desc.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• procmail-exp.xml (modified) (1 diff)

basicnet/mailnews/procmail/procmail-config.xml

@@ -8 +8 @@
 <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
 
-<para><userinput>To be done</userinput> .
-</para>
+<para>Recipes have to be written and placed in your
+<filename>~/.procmailrc</filename> for execution. The procmailex man
+page is the starting place to learn how to write recipies.</para>
 </sect3>
 

basicnet/mailnews/procmail/procmail-desc.xml

@@ -2 +2 @@
 <title>Contents</title>
 
-<para>The procmail package contains <userinput>procmail</userinput>  and
-<userinput>lockfile</userinput>.</para>
+<para>The procmail package contains <userinput>procmail</userinput>, <userinput>formail</userinput>, <userinput>lockfile</userinput> and <userinput>mailstat</userinput>.</para>
 
 </sect2>
@@ -13 +12 @@
 functions of a MDA (Mail Delivery Agent).</para></sect3>
 
+<sect3><title>formail</title>
+<para>formail is a filter that can be used to format mail into mailbox
+format.</para></sect3>
+
 <sect3><title>lockfile</title>
 <para>lockfile is a utilitiy that can lock a file for single use
 interactively or in a script.</para></sect3>
 
+<sect3><title>mailstat</title>
+<para>mailstat prints a summary report of mail that has been filtered by
+procmail since the last time mailstat was ran.</para></sect3>
+
 </sect2>
 

basicnet/mailnews/procmail/procmail-exp.xml

@@ -2 +2 @@
 <title>Command explanations</title>
 
-<para><userinput>BASENAME=/usr :</userinput> To Be Done.</para>
+<para><userinput>BASENAME=/usr :</userinput> The equivilant of <userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput> on other package installations.</para>
 
-<para><userinput>make install-suid :</userinput> To Be Done.</para>
+<para><userinput>make install-suid :</userinput> Modifies permissions of
+the installed files.</para>
 </sect2>