AKS Procmail Library Description

# AKS Procmail Library

The AKS Procmail Library contains the following files:

Makefile
  a Unix Makefile to help install these libary files in `/usr/local`, or another location.
ackmail.rc
  a set of recipes which perfom auto-acknowledgement of incoming mail. This file uses guess-mua.rc and unread-mh.rc. See ackmail.3 for details.
commands.help
  A file of information sent in response to a mail request of "Subject: help info". See "`commands.rc`".
commands.rc
  A set of recipes which recognize commands in the Subject: header and perform them. A log is kept of all such commands.
comm-reply-file.rc
  A recipe file which replaces the body of the current message with a named, or generates an error report. A "subroutine" recipe file for "commands.rc".
correct-addr.rc
  A recipe file which can help do mail forwarding for users who have moved or changed email addresses. Currently not well tested.
dupcheck.rc
  A recipe file which removes duplicate mail.
get-from.rc
  A recipe file which extracts the "best" address, including personal information from the various originating address fields.
guess-mua.rc
  A recipe file which attempts to guess the current MUA (Mail User Agent). Not needed of MUA is explicitly defined.
headers.rc
  Defines some variables which can be used for matching against headers.
list-addr.rc
  A recipe file which trys to determine if the current mail is from a mailing list or not. This is still experimental and not well tested.
procmail-lib.html
  An HTML file which describes the Procmail Library.
unread-mh.rc
  A recipe file which attempts to compute how many unread messages there are for an MH user.

If you have improvements or contributions to this collection of recipes, please send them to me at <aks@sgi.com>. I may not respond quickly to any submissions, but I always appreciate suggestions for improvement.

Procmail is a mail filtering program, with which a user can process incoming mail in an infinite number of ways. Procmail is publicly available at no cost, other than your time. The current version of procmail is always available at:

The latest version of procmail can be obtained directly from the FTP archive:

ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (137.226.225.3)

as (g)zipped tar file: `/pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.gz` <160KB

as compressed tar file: `/pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.Z` <224KB

Procmail, SmartList, and my procmail and SmartList libraries are also available via FTP:

ftp://hub.ucsb.edu/pub/mail/procmail.tar.gz

ftp://hub.ucsb.edu/pub/mail/SmartList.tar.gz

ftp://hub.ucsb.edu/pub/mail/procmail-lib.shar

ftp://hub.ucsb.edu/pub/mail/smartlist-lib.shar

If you have any questions about using procmail, there is a mailing list with lots of helpful members: <procmail@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>. Use the address: <procmail-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> to subscribe to the list.