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Re: procmail recipe to catch mail from user lisrt



* Matt Price <matt.price@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2004:01:15:23:10:46-0500] scribed:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> soooo...  I know this isn't a procmail list, but y'all are so helpful...
> 
> I've set up this primitive mailing list on my office machine:
> 
> a simple .forward file that forwards mail sent to the address
> foucault - at - my.personal.domain
> 
> to a list of email addresses (one address per line).
> 
> Now I want procmail to put every message sent to me from anyone on the list 
> into a
> special mailbox, $MAILDER/.scitechmod.
> 
>  So I did this in .procmailrc: 
> 
> :0: 
> *  ? $FORMAIL -x From: | grep -isF -f /home/scitechmod/.forward 
> $MAILDIR/.scitechmod/ 
>  
> I think it'll work... problem is, I'd like to add MYSELF to the
> mailing list -- in fact, I have to...  but I don't want mail from me
> to end up in the special folder.  Sooo.. think this'll work?
> 
> # try to filter kids' addresses to right mboxes 
> :0: 
> *  ? $FORMAIL -x From: | grep -isF -f /home/scitechmod/.forward 
> * !^From:.*(matt@|matt.price@xxxxxxxxxxx) 
> $MAILDIR/.scitechmod/ 
> 
> ... and is there a tricky way to test my recipes on existing mails?
> I'm loathe to actually set this up till I know it's working.  

   <http://www.professional.org/procmail/sandbox.html>

hth

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