Posts Tagged ‘mail’
Debugging Procmail Recipes
Posted by: arun on: August 12, 2009
Three steps to nirvana:
Modify mail fetch frequency in .fetchmailrc to a small value. E.g. In my .fetchmailrc, I forced fetchmail to query server every 30s:
set daemon 30
Set the LOGFILE and LOGABSTRACT variables in .procmailrc. The one liner here is, LOGFILE specified where procmail would log the rules processed and LOGABSTRACT controls the verbosity of information [...]
New mail notification with Procmail
Posted by: arun on: December 7, 2008
Problem: I have my local mail setup with mutt, fetchmail and procmail. And I would need a way to run an arbitrary script when new mail arrives and _not_ loose the mail from my inbox.
Solution: Procmail supports a nice feature called nesting. With nested blocks a procmail recipe can be assigned more than action.
e.g: Here’s [...]
