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Re: procmail question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D. Wayne Dyer)
Tue Oct 22 22:14:34 1996
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:32:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: "D. Wayne Dyer" <dwdyer@eskimo.com>
In-Reply-To: <199610221458.KAA11213@chaos> from "Sheldon E. Newhouse" at Oct 22, 96 10:58:30 am
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Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote:
>
> I am just learning about procmail. I now can put mail from specific
> addresses into their respective folders. Anyone know how to take all
> the other stuff and leave it in the standard INBOX?
> Right now, my procmailrc is such that all unspecified mail gets
> trashed.
I don't use procmail on my Linux box, but I do on a SunOS system where
my mail goes through (eskimo.com), and I just have rules for certain
kinds of mail. All mail that doesn't have a rule for it gets left in the i
spool file. I invoke procmail from my ~/.forward file as:
"|procmail_wrapper -Yf- #dwdyer"
The unusual invocation as procmail_wrapper is site-specific, as the
folks at Eskimo have heightened security concerns. I don't even know
what's inside the wrapper, as it's hidden from public view. They say
the mail system knows where it is though.
I was under the impression that mail that didn't match a rule got left in
the spool file by default.
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