[SOLVED] Need help filtering messages in .procmailrc

mfoley · 05-15-2018, 11:19 AM

I need some guidance on setting .procmailrc. I subscribe to the samba maillist, which is prolific. I want to see responses to messages I have submitted (by subject), and have those, and all others directed to a mail folder for archival purposes. I've set up my procmail as shown below where '/var/spool/mail/mfoley' is my personal MBOX mailbox. The problem is, ALL messages go to the archive folder (/user/mfoley/mail/$YEAR/sambaList) and none go to my personal mailbox. What am I doing wrong?

Code:

:0c:
* ^Subject:.*\[Samba\] What does a domain member
! /var/spool/mail/mfoley

:0c:
* ^Subject:.*\[Samba\] How to track attempted breakins
! /var/spool/mail/mfoley

:0c:
* ^Subject:.*\[Samba\] Are some Group Policies broken
! /var/spool/mail/mfoley

:0c:
* ^Subject:.*\[Samba\] How to change Domain password as normal user
! /var/spool/mail/mfoley

:0:
* ^Subject:.*\[Samba\]
/user/mfoley/mail/$YEAR/sambaList

bathory · 05-15-2018, 03:10 PM

You don't need the "!" in front of the path to the to your mbox:

Code:

:0c:
* ^Subject:.*\[Samba\] What does a domain member
/var/spool/mail/mfoley

:0c:
* ^Subject:.*\[Samba\] How to track attempted breakins
/var/spool/mail/mfoley

:0c:
* ^Subject:.*\[Samba\] Are some Group Policies broken
/var/spool/mail/mfoley

:0c:
* ^Subject:.*\[Samba\] How to change Domain password as normal user
/var/spool/mail/mfoley

:0:
* ^Subject:.*\[Samba\]
/user/mfoley/mail/$YEAR/sambaList

mfoley · 05-16-2018, 11:55 PM

That appears to have worked! Not sure why I had the ! in there in the first place. That character for an action line says to forward to the specified mail addresses, but I've specified my mail folder. Hmmm, if I did specify "! mfoley" as the action line, would it deliver to my system mail folder or would it attempt to re-process through .procmailrc?

bathory · 05-17-2018, 03:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mfoley

That appears to have worked! Not sure why I had the ! in there in the first place. That character for an action line says to forward to the specified mail addresses, but I've specified my mail folder. Hmmm, if I did specify "! mfoley" as the action line, would it deliver to my system mail folder or would it attempt to re-process through .procmailrc?

If you use !mfoley it will deliver it to mfoley.
Now if that .procmailrc recipe is in ~mfoley you're going to have a loop.

mfoley · 05-17-2018, 11:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

If you use !mfoley it will deliver it to mfoley.
Now if that .procmailrc recipe is in ~mfoley you're going to have a loop.

The .procmailrc recipe is in $HOME/mfoley/.procmailrc and mfoley's system mbox file is in /var/spool/mail/mfoley. I think I would have a loop. I'll leave it the way I have it now set from your original suggestion.