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Linux Email
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Linux Email

by Ian Haycox, Ralf Hildebrandt, David Rusenko, Alistair McDonald, Patrick Ben Koetter, Carl Taylor, Magnus Back
November 2009
Beginner
376 pages
8h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Basic operations

When a mail item arrives and is passed to the Procmail program, the sequence of operations follows a set format. It starts by loading the various configuration files to obtain the rules that have been set up for that particular user. The message is then tested by each of these rules in turn and when a suitable match is made, the rule is applied. Some rules terminate when they have completed, while others return control so that the message can be assessed against remaining rules for potential processing.

Configuration file

The system-wide configuration is normally made in /etc/procmailrc, while personal configuration files are normally stored in the user's home directory and called .procmailrc. Individual rules can be stored in ...

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