About:
The procmail and formail mail processing package can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort your incoming mail into separate folders/files (real convenient when subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritising your mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival (e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation for different types of mail) or selectively forward certain incoming mail automatically to someone.

Author:
Capt'n Foo Bar [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.39/10.00 (13 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.procmail.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.procmail.org/procmail-snapshot.tar.gz
Changelog:
http://www.procmail.org/procmail-history.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		No Input/Output (Daemon)
[License]		OSI Approved :: Artistic License, OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Communications :: Email :: Filters

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	3.22	14-Jul-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development			GNU General Public License (GPL)

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 Comments

[»] You can use Procmail to create mail-servers?
by Boogers - Mar 19th 2003 14:39:27

really?
How?
Has anyone actually done this?

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[»] User-hostile!
by Phil Hunt - Aug 17th 2001 21:32:37

Unfortunately the procmailrc file format isn't exactly
the most intuitive or simple thing around.

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Philip Hunt, philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk

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[»] License Info
by Q*bert - Feb 5th 1999 09:33:01

Here's what the README from the FTP site says:

Use this software package at your own risk. The programmer cannot be held liable for any incurred damages, directly or indirectly due to the use or inability to use this software. You are encouraged to distribute this package freely. This package or any part thereof or any work derived from it, is however not to be sold (minor transfer costs excepted) or included in any commercially sold software package (if you want to do this anyway, contact me (address below), and we'll work something out). If you distribute it, please leave the package intact. You are allowed to take parts from this distribution and distribute these separately as long as you retain the copyright messages. If you redistribute any part of this package in a modified form, be sure to mark the parts you changed. If you have some important changes that might be useful to the rest of the world, contact me instead.

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[»] Re: License Info
by Martin Herrman - Jun 11th 2001 15:51:49

So what's the problem?

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[»] Re: License Info
by Capt'n Foo Bar - Jun 13th 2001 23:25:40


> So what's the problem?
At the time the "License Info" comment was posted, procmail's license wasn't particularly clear on some Open Source points. The current version is dual licensed under the GPL and Artistic licenses, so that comment should be considered obsolete.


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[»] Re: License Info
by Martin Herrman - Jun 11th 2001 15:54:13

So what's the problem?

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http://www.herrman.nl

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