Questions tagged [procmail]
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detect spam from random domain names in header, in .procmailrc
Spam from a well-known organization that sells large lots of knockoffs of everything from drones to roombas
uses random domains in the From:, Message-ID:, and Reply-To: fields,
all different, without ...
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Bulk delete text/html parts of email messages
I would like to reduce the size of my mail archive by deleting text/html parts of multipart/alternative messages.
I can do this individually in mutt by opening each message, but it gets tedious. Is ...
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Prevent use of procmailrc by some users
We have an e-mail server running Postfix (SMTP) and Dovecot (POP/IMAP) on Debian 10. Users cannot log directly on it (SSH), but have access to their homes through NFS.
We would like to use Procmail to ...
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Procmail: Forward incomming message, and send notify to another e-mail adress
If there is an incomming e-mail from some specified e-mail adresses, I want to forward that e-mail to on e-mail address, and send a notification to another one.
I have tried using both formail and ...
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SELinux blocking procmail from executing dspam but no AVC message
I have a CentOS 7 system in which I use postfix as the MTA. Certain users use procmail via .forward in their home directories:
# cat .forward
"|exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75"
In this case, I ...
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How to retrieve the HTML from en email with Linux?
I'm using a Linux machine (Debian) and installed fetchmail and procmail on it. Right now, it is able to fetch mails sent to my gmail address every one minute. However, the file fetched by fetchmail is ...
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Send message via postfix delayed
I have a script on my server that automatically answers incoming messages. This is realized with procmail. I want to write a follow-up after e.g. 24 or 48 hours. Is there a way i can realize this - ...
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Why procmail couldn't write to temp folder
I use procmail to filter email, but it couldn't write to temp folder:
procmail: Couldn't create or rename temp file "/var/mail/tmp/1483421819.25425_0.morep"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/mail/...
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will procmail "tag" incoming email based on to: , but only if it isn't already tagged?
So if you've seen/used mailman , you'll know that it will add a [groupname] tag to the subject line of emails sent through it, if the tag doesn't already exist.
Can this be done with procmail?
I ...
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Regular expressions in procmail
I have a problem with backscatter to randomly generated fake-from-adresses on a domain with a catchall.
The fake-alias is using a scheme, using egrep with the regexp
^To:.*.[A-Z].[a-z].*[A-Z].[a-z].*...
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Why procmail didn't match this rule?
I have the following rule to send all emails with suspicious attachments to a dedicated folder:
# Emails with attachments
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* ^Content-Type: multipart/
{
:0 B
* ^Content-Type: application/(zip|x-...
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procmail gpg --verify signature
Is there a recipe for procmail that I can use to verify a pgp signature?Almost like gpg --verify. I have looked at pgpenvelope but I'm not needing to check this in any kind of mail client.
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Correctly configure fetchmail/procmail to forward to gmail (with TLS)
I'll start by saying I'm pretty uninformed when it comes to mail protocols, encryption, and basically everything else relevant to this question.
My goal is to set up fetchmail/procmail on a machine ...
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"Procmail" component of getmail - spamassassin - procmail - mu4e
I'm a newbie trying to work out the following mail solution on a laptop where I'm the only user:
getmail - spamassassin - procmail - mu4e (an emacs mail program)
Right now I'm succeeding at
getmail ...
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Copy unix mail (received by sendmail) to a linux directory (individually)
Does anyone know a way to copy all new arrived emails (on Fedora Linux), to store in a Linux directory (not in some other mail folder, but on the Linux file system directory)?
We use Procmail as a ...
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How do I extract and sort image attachment from emails?
Here is what I was thinking of:
I want to create a Raspberry Pi Picture-frame (DPF) for my grandma, but with basic email support. Emails can be sent by six family members and will be received daily ...
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how to add a unique number|datetime|message id to an email subject with procmail
I need to change the subject of certain emails by adding a unique element. it doesn't really matter what is added as long it is unique. I thought about the date string or the message ID itself.
this ...
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Procmail script creates files with unexpected read/write permissions
Running under CentOS 6.5, I have a procmail recipe that invokes a Perl script that processes mail addressed to reguser and writes a file like:
my $text = "Text generated from incoming mail";
my $...
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Fetchmail redownloading emails
I am using fetchmail to retrieve emails off server and then viewing with mutt. My settings look like,
poll server.com protocol IMAP
user "myuser@server.com"
password "secret"
keep
mda "/usr/bin/...
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Prevent mail delivery errors from forwarded address for spam
I forward my email from a linux server (running exim) to my gmail account using procmail. Frequently I get "Mail delivery failed" errors from spam messages sent to me, where the error is an SMTP ...
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How to flag (mark) email as important with procmail
How to flag (mark) an email which matches a rule as important (press F in mutt will flag email as important). So how to write this in procmail recipe ? If procmail can not flag email as important, ...
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Preprocessing incoming mail with fetchmail/procmail/mutt
I use fetchmail->procmail->mutt programms to all my mail. Some of mail generated automatically and some people not smart enough, so I would like to reformat mail body with some script.
My best guess ...
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How can I write a procmail recipe to execute script without affecting the original message
I want to use procmail to trigger a script to run when a certain email message is encountered but I do not want to change, alter, or prevent delivery of the original message.
Will this procmail ...
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automatically encrypt and decrypt emails using gnupg (gpgrelay for unix)
My point of view related to email security is: whenever possible emails should be protected with PGP/GPG while transporting, but it doesn't have sense to store encrypted emails in local mailbox (this ...
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Organize Email by Date Using procmail
I would like to organize all incoming email into the following directory structure based on the date of the email:
ROOT --+-- YYYYMMDD --+-- HH --+-- mm --+-- YYYYMMDD-HHmmSS-000001
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procmail recipe not working right for automatically stripping incoming attachments
In following-up my previous question, I am trying to use munpack in an automated fashion.
I'm trying to do this with procmail.
> cat .procmailrc
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| sleep 5 ; munpack /var/spool/mail/...
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Procmail recipe that will execute a script without affecting delivery?
How do I write a procmail recipe that executes a shell script without affecting delivery?(in this case, something that sends me a DM via Twitter)
I don't want to affect further processing of the ...
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Are file access times not properly maintained in Mac OS X?
I'm trying to determine how file access times are maintained by default in Mac OS X, as I'm trying to diagnose some odd behaviour I'm seeing in a new MBP Unibody (running Snow Leopard, 10.6.2):
The ...
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Play a sound when mutt has new mail?
I'm using mutt for my mail, usually put on the 2nd monitor with some other windows. Because I'm not monitoring that monitor I often miss the new mails.
I want mutt to play a sound (or use Growl) to ...
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How do I set up a email whitelist using only procmailrc to protect my kids from unwanted email?
How do I set up a email whitelist using only procmailrc to protect my kids from unwanted email?
I currently us the OS parental controls, but that is only good for the computer it is enabled on.
I ...
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How can I setup a reminder email tool via procmail?
I would like to be able to setup a reminder 'service' for myself so that I can schedule emails or text messages to be sent to my handheld when I can't get to an ssh client.
Here's my scenario:
It's ...
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How can I convert HTML emails to plain text with fetchmail?
I recently set up an email gateway for our bug tracker, which was originally intended as a way for streamline error reporting from our server software. I told my colleagues about it, and they were ...
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