Re: Procmailrc start

On 26.08.11 15:21, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
> If not, what are the bare minimum lines? A full listing of them would be
> better as then I can add just the ones needed.
> 
> I would assume the following lines of code before the recipes:
> 
> Maildir
> log
> verbose
> path
> 
> What else before the recipes start?

Do you have the three examples:

/usr/share/doc/procmail/examples/[1-3]procmailrc

on your host? I don't recall whether they came with the apt-get procmail
... yep seems so, since I don't see a procmail doc package.

You should be able to have some fun with them already.

I just now saw the package:

procmail-lib - procmail library of plug-in recipes

which might be worth a glance, once you're up and running.

It is many years since I've looked above the recipes, at the start of my
.procmailrc. Here's what I find:

                                  # Avoid logging clashes. Separate log records.
MAILDIR=/home/erik/mail           # Thanks to Bart Schaefer & Ruud H.G. van Tol:
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/tmp_log.$$       # <- Each process uses a temporary log.
FINAL_LOG=$MAILDIR/log            # <- Append here, via TRAP, at process exit:
TRAP='procmail -p DEFAULT=$FINAL_LOG /dev/null < $LOGFILE && rm -f $LOGFILE'

But that's been there so long that I can't be sure that it's still close
to optimal.

Erik

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