Polyteknisk Boghandel

The complete guide to procmail, the #1 open source email and list management tool. Power techniques for controlling email--and avoiding spam. Learn to use procmail as a mailing list processor and mail delivery agent. Includes numerous case studies, practical examples, and a detailed reference section full of tips, tricks, and solutions.

Foreword
Preface
What is Promail? What is Procmail for? The Basics of Email. The History. The Ingredients. Setting Up Procmail. Obtaining and Installing Procmail. Controlling Mail Delivery with Procmail. Setting Up Procmail for Users. Creating a forward file. Running Procmail Manually. Running Procmail Manually to Reprocess a Mailbox. Running Procmail Manually to Test Recipes. Debugging Procmail Recipes. Simple Filtering of Email with Procmail. Setting Up a Basic procmailrc file. Improving Efficiency. It Is Never That Easy. Making Copies. Multiple Conditions in a Recipe. Disposing of Emails. Working with Emails by Size. Nesting Blocks. Summary. More Complex Filtering Using Procmail Regular Expressions. Regular Expressions. Matching Beginnings and Ends. Matching Individual Characters. Character Classes. Sequence Meta-characters. Wildcard Confusion. Word Boundaries. Built-in Shortcuts. Defining Variables. Using the Head and the Body. Other Recipe Flags. Adding Complexity to Conditional Lines. Matching a Condition in the Head or Body. Matching a Condition against a Variable. Or Conditionals and the Else Flag. BackreferencesWhat You Have Already Matched. Scoring. The Theory of Scoring. Limits. External Programs. Capturing Output into Variables. Extracting Data from Email and Filter Recipes. Using External Programs in Condition Lines. Where the External Programs are to be Found. Using Procmail to Manage Mailing Lists. Announcement Mailing List. Discussion List. Dedicated Mailing List Software. Troubleshooting. Diagnostic Messages. Invoking Procmail. Procmail as a Delivery Agent. Procmail as a General Purpose Mail Filter. Procmail as a Mail Reprocessor. Invoking Formail. Macros and Evironment Variables. Variables. Recipe Syntax. Variables. Comments. Comments Cannot Occur on Condition Lines. Comments Must be Outside Quoted Strings. Comments Depend on what Precedes the #. Recipes. Colon Line. Locking. Conditions. Regular Expressions. Actions. Regular Expression in Meta-characters. Regular Expression Shortcuts. Condition Types. Condition Line Flags. Cookbook. The Basics. Basics prc. Directing Email to Separate Mailboxes. Problem. Recipe. Explanation. Directing a Single Email to Multiple Mailboxes. Problem. Recipe. Explanation. Handling Email from Mailing Lists. Problem. Recipe. Explanation. OR-ing Conditions. Problem. Recipe. Explanation. Recognising Text that can be Split Across a Line-end. Problem. Recipe. Explanation. Removing ListNamefrom Subject Lines. Problem. Recipe. Explanation. Setting the Default Delivery Location to be a Forwarding Address. Problem. Recipe. Explanation.
Appendix A. Sample Build.
Index.