Understanding Email
If you have ever set up an email program, you may have seen that it breaks the mail handling process into two parts — getting your mail from somewhere, and sending mail. The “getting” part is usually called POP (which stands for Post Office Protocol), while the “sending” part is called SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Read more
Spam mail bad. Procmail GOOD.
Porkchop <porkchop@example.com> wrote:
>I'm looking to get a procmail thingie setup. I spent a >few minutes looking at the manpage...seems to be >written using a non-roman alphabet...!
>Took a quick run on search engines with no luck...so does >anyone know of a 'procmail for idiots' type webpage?
jtest - rotate your procmail log
I’m using GNU grep, which allows me to use the -B option to display a few lines of context before the line where it found a match, and -A to display lines after it. mailstat is a helper program which like formail is included in the procmail package. It automatically moves the log file you feed it to a new file with the same name plus the extension “.old”, so in this case, it moves “pm.log” to “pm.log.old”. Read more