The Procmail package contains an autonomous mail processor. This is useful for filtering and sorting incoming mail.
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A MTA that installs sendmail
Editor Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/procmail
This package does not come with a test suite.
Install Procmail by running the following
commands as the root user:
sed -i 's/getline/get_line/' src/*.[ch] && patch -Np1 -i ../procmail-3.22-consolidated_fixes-1.patch && make LOCKINGTEST=/tmp MANDIR=/usr/share/man install && make install-suid
sed -i 's/getline/get_line/' src/*.[ch]: This renames procmail's getline function to avoid conflict with the getline function from glibc.
make LOCKINGTEST=/tmp install: This prevents make from asking you where to test file-locking patterns.
make install-suid: Modifies permissions of the installed files.
Recipes have to be written and placed in
~/.procmailrc for execution. The procmailex man
page is the starting place to learn how to write recipes.
For additional information, see also
https://pm-doc.sourceforge.net/.
is a filter that can be used to format mail into mailbox format | |
is a utility that can lock a file for single use interactively or in a script | |
prints a summary report of mail that has been filtered by procmail since the last time mailstat was ran | |
is an autonomous mail processor. It performs all the functions of an MDA (Mail Delivery Agent) |