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The procmail mail processing program can be used to create mail-servers,
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mailing lists, sort your incoming mail into separate folders/files (real
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convenient when subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritising
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your mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival
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(e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation for different
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types of mail) or selectively forward certain incoming mail automatically
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to someone.
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Procmail can be used:
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- and installed by an unprivileged user (for himself only).
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- as a drop in replacement for the local delivery agent /bin/mail
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(with biff/comsat support).
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- as a general mailfilter for whole groups of messages (e.g. when
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called from within sendmail.cf rules).
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The accompanying formail program enables you to generate autoreplies,
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split up digests/mailboxes into the original messages, do some very
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simple header-munging/extraction, or force mail into mail-format (with
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leading From line).
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WWW: http://www.procmail.org/
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