PROCMAIL: The automatic administrator of the mail [30 mn of reading - published 11/10/2004 8:52:50 PM - Target : Confirmé]

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Christel VENANCE Student-Engineer Supinfo Canada SUPINFO graduate year  2008    Write to the person    All projects of the same author    Mini-CV of the author

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The aim of this article will be to present Procmail to you which is a automatic administrator of the mail. Very powerful tool, it treats the filtering of the mail, whatever it is, also the undesirable mail either by removing it, or by storing it and has many of other options which we will see.

Summary

Introduction
I. Definition
II. Installation
II.1. First method
II.2. Second method
III. Configuration
III.1. First method
III.2. Second method
IV. Functioning
IV.1. Structure of the email
IV.2. The filtering of the email
IV.3. Redirection of some mails towards others electronic mails.
V. To fight against the spam with Procmail
V.1. To filter according to the subject
V.2. To filter according to the sender
V.3. To filter according to the encoding
VI. How to use Procmail?
VI.1. With the soft Unix using a MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
VI.2. With EXIM
VI.3. With Netscape
VI.4. With Fetchmail
VI.5. By POP
Conclusion