How to filter mail when you don't have access to the Mail server?

#1 05-27-2004, 01:29 PM

Hi guys,
I'm trying to get my local procmail + mutt to filter my mail and move
it into local mailboxes. I connect to a Sendmail server via SMTP.
Can it be done?

+----------+ +----------+
| SERVER | SMTP | CLIENT |
| Sendmail |==========>>| Procmail | +--- [INBOX]
| - No | | mutt --|--|
|Procmail- | | | +--- [Filtered Mail]
+----------+ +----------+

So in clear, what I want is to be able to download all the mail From
my Server and have my *local* procmail filter it into seperate local
mail folders.

As I said, I have no access to the Server so POP is out of the
question

Many thanks
Ed.

#2 05-27-2004, 03:48 PM

On 27 May 2004 10:29:46 -0700, Edoardo Costa <edoardocosta@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi guys,
> I'm trying to get my local procmail + mutt to filter my mail and move
> it into local mailboxes. I connect to a Sendmail server via SMTP.
> Can it be done?
>
> +----------+ +----------+
>| SERVER | SMTP | CLIENT |
>| Sendmail |==========>>| Procmail | +--- [INBOX]
>| - No | | mutt --|--|
>|Procmail- | | | +--- [Filtered Mail]
> +----------+ +----------+
>
> So in clear, what I want is to be able to download all the mail From
> my Server and have my *local* procmail filter it into seperate local
> mail folders.
>
> As I said, I have no access to the Server so POP is out of the
> question

>

That's what procmail does.

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Put the following line into your ~/.forward file. This time, include the quotes (").
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail || exit 75 #myid"
where myid is your user identification. If you are not sure what your userid
is, try typing whoami
-------

From: http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/spamfoil.html

Another useful link:

http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html

The man pages for procmail are very good, and you shouldn't have any problem.

I'm setting the follow-up to comp.mail.misc. This is not a Mutt question.

Plenty of procmail experts there.

AC

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#3 05-27-2004, 08:25 PM

On 27 May 2004 10:29:46 -0700, Edoardo Costa wrote:
> I'm trying to get my local procmail + mutt to filter my mail and move
> it into local mailboxes. I connect to a Sendmail server via SMTP.
> Can it be done?

A better group for this would be comp.mail.misc.

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#4 05-28-2004, 06:57 AM

Thanks for your answers!
Sorry for the posting in the wrong place.
I thought procmail had to be on the server to be able to filter mail.
I have the filter you mention on my client (.forward) and I can
connect to the remote server via smtp, but no filtering. Not to worry
though, I'm reading the procmail man pages

Thanks again.
Ed.

edoardocosta@yahoo.com (Edoardo Costa) wrote in message news:<b400961b.0405270929.3aa3ca75@posting.google. com>...
> Hi guys,
> I'm trying to get my local procmail + mutt to filter my mail and move
> it into local mailboxes. I connect to a Sendmail server via SMTP.
> Can it be done?
>
> +----------+ +----------+
> | SERVER | SMTP | CLIENT |
> | Sendmail |==========>>| Procmail | +--- [INBOX]
> | - No | | mutt --|--|
> |Procmail- | | | +--- [Filtered Mail]
> +----------+ +----------+
>
> So in clear, what I want is to be able to download all the mail From
> my Server and have my *local* procmail filter it into seperate local
> mail folders.
>
> As I said, I have no access to the Server so POP is out of the
> question

>
> Many thanks
> Ed.

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