Organizing

I’m thinking about taking a run at organizing, really organizing, all the procmail recipes for my several email accounts.

I have, needless to say, code that is shared, duplicated, or nearly duplicated across my 4 primary accounts,a bout a half-dozen secondary accounts, and then a portion of that code is shared over to most of the user accounts on the system.

Before I got started, I wanted some recommendations on how, exactly to go about this.

I was considering something along these lines, with * items being things the are already done.

* procmailrc file with basic variable extraction, mail backup

* hand off processing to .procmailrc if user has one, otherwise process for spam

In .procmailrc
call external basicrc file for all users to process list messages, + addressing, and set default delivery locations (like .$ARG/ or .SPAM/)

process local rc files (~/.procmail/.*rc)

call a deliveryrc file that actually delivers the mail and logs to user’s log file (~/logs/pm.10-11-2011.log)


I figure the deliveryrc and basicrc can be the same file for everyone if I do it right, though I am unsure how to load arbitrary files in the user’s ~/.procmail/ folder.

Does all of this sound reasonable? Does anyone have any hints (or samples) on something like this? What I envision is something that is going to be necessarily a lot more complicated than what I am currently doing, but will end up being more flexible and easier to manage since most files will just be shared between all users. I may even look into doing something like creating a library of procmail includes that a user could just comment/uncomment to run if wanted

#Check and tag message for spamishness
#INCLUDERC=/path/to/spamcheck

#Sort users in ~/.friends into .friends/
#calls /path/to/eliveryrc to deliver the message
INLCUDERC=/path/to/friendsort

#Put all extensions into .Plus.$ARG/
#calls /path/to/eliveryrc to deliver the message
INCLUDERC=/path/to/plussort

etc.

Thoughts?

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