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====== Procmail ======

====== Procmail - Mail Filtering ======
Procmail is a Mail processor which can forward, sort, or just about do anything with emails. Procmail is mainly a USER run program, where users determine what they want sorted etc. etc. The users procmail script is located in /home/$USER/.procmailrc

Lets write a basic Procmail script:
<code>
 vi /home/$USER/.procmailrc
 
 #Start of Procmailrc script.
 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin/o2sms
 MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir
 LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log
 
 :0 c:
 * ^(To|Cc|Delivered-To): .*root@(server.com|localhost)
 .Root-Server/
 #This command above - will copy all emails sent To|Cc|Delivered-To root@server.com into a Maildir folder called Root-Server.
 
 :0:
 * ^(To|Cc): .*debian-security-announce@server.org
 .Debian-Security-Announce/
 #This command will MOVE/Put all emails sent To|Cc the debian-security-announce mailing list, into a folder called Debian-Security-Announce
 
 :0 c:
 * ^From: .*nagios@external.server.com
 * ^To: .*user@server.com
 .Test_Folder/
 #This command will copy emails which are From and To the various users. Once these 2 criteria are met, then the email is copied into the Test_Folder.

</code>
There is a load more commands and checks which procmail can carry out. It can run a virus scan and spam check on some, or all of your email.

The : means lockfile while processing.
<code>
 man procmailrc
 #shows all options
</code>

===== Forward a Copy of all Emails to another email account =====
Although it is possible to do this using the /home/$user/.forward, it is as easy to do this with a procmailrc entry.
<code>
 :0 c
 !email@gmail.com
</code>

===== Procmail Examples =====
Simple!:
<code>
 man procmailex
</code>


Excellent Article:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/242

Links:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/ref-guide/s1-email-procmail.html