Assume we get three types of mail:
We want all three of these treated differently.
'INFO REQUEST' needs to be saved into a folder called 'Marketing'. This is the most basic type of filtering.
'ORDER'needs to be saved in a folder called 'Sales' and a copy needs to be sent to 'joe' (joe@bigbusiness.com). This shows a little more complex filtering.
'SUPPORT' needs to be saved to a folder called 'Support', a copy mailed to the support team (support@bigbusiness.com) and an acknowledgement sent back to the person who send the mail. This is a custom autoresponder.
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin # Path Variables for the procmail session MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # could be either $HOME/mail or $HOME/Mail LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log # Keep a log of what comes in and where it goes VERBOSE=no # No error Reporting --values (no|off yes|on) COMSAT=no # set to no|off SENDMAIL=/usr/bin/sendmail # sendmail location
:0: * ^Subject:.INFO REQUEST Marketing
:0
* ^Subject:.ORDER
{
:0 c
! joe@bigbusiness.com
:0
Sales
}
This is a little more difficult to understand.
Make sure that 'SUPPORT' is in the Subject line and that it does not
contain data from 'FROM_DAEMON' (listserv's and auto-mailers are suppose
to put this in their headers.)
We also don't want to keep replying to other auto responders. This is remedied by
putting an 'X' header on your response. (X headers are not seen by standard mail clients)
formail reformats the headers of the outgoing message to include 'X-Loop: john_doe@bigbusiness.com'
The text that is being displayed is in the file '/home/your_account/acknowledgement.txt'
It's mailed to support@bigbusiness.com and saved to the 'Support' folder.
:0
* ^Subject:.SUPPORT
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^X-Loop: john_doe@bigbusiness.com
{
:0 h c
| (formail -r -A"X-Loop: john_doe@bigbusines.com " ; \
cat /home/your_account/acknowlegement.txt ) | $SENDMAIL -t
:0 c
!support@bigbusiness.com
:0
Support
}
To separate mail by sender (From line) use the following text which will cause any mail from joe@bigbusiness.com to be stored in the folder 'BigBoss'.
:0: * ^From:.joe@bigbusiness.com BigBoss
To cause a rule to be applied only to specific mailbox you simply add another line to the rule which requires the To: line to match. Note that in the presence of multiple mailboxes all rules are checked, so this means that a rule that doesn't check who an email is to will be applied to all incomming email.
The following text will cause any mail sent to register@yourvirtualhost.com to be stored in the folder 'Registrations'.
:0 * ^To:.*register@yourvirtualhost.com Registrations
To modify the autoresponder rule used above to respond to mail sent to support the follow would be used.
:0
* ^To:.*support@yourvirtualhost.com
* !^FROM_DAEMON
* !^X-Loop: john_doe@bigbusiness.com
.
. The rest of the rule goes here.
.
|
| Call 1-800-THE-LOST if you've seen this child. Click on the image for case details. We support the work of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Click Here To Add A Missing Child Link To Your Pages! |
|
|
|
Send E-Mail to: |
