[lug] procmail config

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Mon Dec 4 18:03:21 MST 2000


Be careful with that \[lug\] -- a regular occurence in my "BLUG" box is
to find private replies to e-mails that ended up filtered in there
because the person replying didn't take the "[lug]" off the subject
line of the message.  :)

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 06:59:27PM -0600, C Menzes wrote:
> 
> Thanks. I found that the path i was specifying was incorrect. I guess that
> procmail is looking for a path from within my home directory as opposed to
> what I assumed, being the mailhome dir. Changing the path to mail/LUG
> rather than just LUG seemed to do the trick. 
> I do think your regex of \[lug\] is a wiser choice than what I had. 
> 
> -cjm
> 
> 
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Atkinson, Chip wrote:
> 
> > I don't believe that you have the pattern correct.  If you look for \[lug\],
> > you might have better luck.  Another thing to be aware of is the file
> > protection of .procmailrc.  chmod it to 600.  This is important because
> > .procmailrc is ignored otherwise.  Hope that helps.
> > 
> > Chip
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: C Menzes [mailto:charles at lunarmedia.net]
> > > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 4:23 PM
> > > To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > > Subject: [lug] procmail config
> > > 
> > > 
> > > hello all-
> > > i think could be considered my first post to the group. i'd appreciate
> > > someone with some procmail expertise to help a lost soul on this one.
> > > 
> > > my procmailrc is as follows:
> > > 
> > > :0
> > > * ^Subject:.*LUG
> > > LUG
> > > 
> > > 
> > > which i am hoping will filter all lug mail into its own 
> > > directory. however
> > > it just doesnt seem to be working. suggestions, or should i say,
> > > corrections?
> > > 
> > > thanks -cjm
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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