Comments on: Procmail recipes http://chicks-dig-unix.net/2006/02/07/procmail/ Misunderstood by everyone, everywhere. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:47:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Niall http://chicks-dig-unix.net/2006/02/07/procmail/#comment-1539 Niall Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:12:24 +0000 http://chicks-dig-unix.net/2006/02/07/procmail/#comment-1539 Oh, another one I thought of... I usually subscribe to lists as username+listname@mydomain. I've set my MTA to deliver to procmail and in my procmailrc I have the following: ARG=$1 :0 * ! ARG ?? ^$ $MAILDIR/.Lists.$ARG/ $1 is the local part after the +, but you can't use it directly in procmail, you have to assign it to a variable. Automatically chucks mail into the right folder. Oh, another one I thought of…
I usually subscribe to lists as username+listname@mydomain.
I’ve set my MTA to deliver to procmail and in my procmailrc I have the following:

ARG=$1
:0
* ! ARG ?? ^$
$MAILDIR/.Lists.$ARG/

$1 is the local part after the +, but you can’t use it directly in procmail, you have to assign it to a variable.
Automatically chucks mail into the right folder.

]]> By: Aidan Kehoe http://chicks-dig-unix.net/2006/02/07/procmail/#comment-1416 Aidan Kehoe Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:20:35 +0000 http://chicks-dig-unix.net/2006/02/07/procmail/#comment-1416 A friend uses this for automatic archiving of mailman lists, without the need for list-specific configuration (make sure to revert: <pre>:0 * ^List-Id:.*<\/[^>]+ { DUMMY=`echo "$MATCH" | tr "\." "-"` } :0 a: .${DUMMY}/</pre> Which is very impressive, but breaks if your mail client wants to read your .procmailrc and find out the existing lists from it. A friend uses this for automatic archiving of mailman lists, without the need for list-specific configuration (make sure to revert:

:0
* ^List-Id:.*<\/[^>]+
{ DUMMY=`echo "$MATCH" | tr "\." "-"` }

:0 a:
.${DUMMY}/

Which is very impressive, but breaks if your mail client wants to read your .procmailrc and find out the existing lists from it.

]]> By: Cliph http://chicks-dig-unix.net/2006/02/07/procmail/#comment-1377 Cliph Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:28:22 +0000 http://chicks-dig-unix.net/2006/02/07/procmail/#comment-1377 Ah yeah, well spotted Aidan and well caught Niall. Ah yeah, well spotted Aidan and well caught Niall.

]]> By: Niall http://chicks-dig-unix.net/2006/02/07/procmail/#comment-1376 Niall Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:11:15 +0000 http://chicks-dig-unix.net/2006/02/07/procmail/#comment-1376 .Trash for mbox, .Trash/ for maildir .Trash for mbox, .Trash/ for maildir

]]> By: Aidan Kehoe http://chicks-dig-unix.net/2006/02/07/procmail/#comment-1375 Aidan Kehoe Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:47:56 +0000 http://chicks-dig-unix.net/2006/02/07/procmail/#comment-1375 <blockquote><i>Replace “/dev/null” with “.Trash” if you want to be more cautious and instead send mails to your IMAP trash folder.</i></blockquote>Should be ".Trash/" , as I understand it? Happily, there's only one email forum participant I don't want to read after all these years, so my killfile recipe is simpler.

Replace “/dev/null” with “.Trash” if you want to be more cautious and instead send mails to your IMAP trash folder.

Should be “.Trash/” , as I understand it? Happily, there’s only one email forum participant I don’t want to read after all these years, so my killfile recipe is simpler.

]]> By: Niall http://chicks-dig-unix.net/2006/02/07/procmail/#comment-1374 Niall Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:06:58 +0000 http://chicks-dig-unix.net/2006/02/07/procmail/#comment-1374 My killfile recipe looks like this: :0 * ? /bin/fgrep -i -f $HOME/.killfile /dev/null My killfile recipe looks like this:

:0
* ? /bin/fgrep -i -f $HOME/.killfile
/dev/null

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