Panix Help System: Additional Procmail resources

Additional Procmail Resources

A procmail recipe checks each message for the characteristic(s) that you specify and then disposes of the message accordingly.

Procmail is a very powerful program with a lot of features. The Panix help desk can provide support only for some basic features. The Panix user community includes a number of extremely knowledgable procmail users who are most generous with their expertise. You can generally find them in the panix.questions newsgroup.

Meantime, here is a list of resources to help you get familiar with procmail, from basic tutorial-level to advanced tricks.

Procmail has several useful man pages. Check out

man procmail: Technical details.
man procmailrc: How the procmailrc file works.
man procmailsc: Using Procmail's scoring
man procmailex: Examples - probably the most useful of all.

Mail Filtering with Procmail: A Tutorial: Ian Soboroff's (of Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County) excellent getting-started essay. Thanks to his clarity, and the fact that UMBC uses basically the same set of paths as Panix, we can find nothing of substance to add.
Procmail Quick Start: This page, copyright Nancy McGough & Infinite Ink, contains lots of details and many helpful links.