Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 13:23:16 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: procmail or .forward for "vacation" program. Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105AEB@site2s1>
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OK, given the comments I've gotten so far, how does this sound? --------------------------------------------- :0: * !^Precedence:.bulk | "/usr/bin/vacation -a cjm2" $ORGMAIL --------------------------------------------- -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Michaels [SMTP:ChrisMic@clientlogic.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 1:13 PM > To: 'Mark Thomas' > Cc: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail) > Subject: RE: procmail or .forward for "vacation" program. > > See below. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark Thomas [SMTP:thomas@clark.net] > > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 1:11 PM > > To: Christopher Michaels > > Subject: RE: procmail or .forward for "vacation" program. > > > > At 12:37 PM 7/25/99 -0400, you wrote: > > >Ok, I should just stop sending e-mail today. I think I'm getting antsy > > >since I'm one day away from vacation. I did a bit more reading of man > > >pages, and hopefully someone can tell me if I'm on the right track. > > > > > >I have several rules that filter out the FreeBSD mailing list and some > > other > > >things by (if memory serves I'm not at home) the sender line in the > > header. > > >It then (of course) delivers it to a file in my ~/mail/ dir. > > > > > >Now, according to "man procmailrc" when a delivering rule is processed, > > >subsequent rules are not processed. Given than, is it safe to put the > > >following at the end of my .procmailrc? > > > > > >--------------------------------------------- > > >:0 c: > > >| "/usr/bin/vacation -a cjm2" > > >--------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > This should work. You probably want to short circuit any mailer messages > > by > > putting a rule near the top of your .procmailrc like this: > > > > :0: > > * ^FROM_DAEMON > > $ORIGMAIL > > > Thanks, I didn't think of that! > > Ok, given this, should I maybe make my rule instead say the > following, or does it not matter since it's the last rule in the file? > --------------------------------------------- > :0: > | "/usr/bin/vacation -a cjm2" > $ORGMAIL > --------------------------------------------- > > > Which delivers daemon generated mail to your normal mailbox. > > > > If you do a lot of procmail stuff, using X-Loop headers to short circuit > > mail loops is a good thing too. > > > I really just use it to dump my mailing lists, and cron output, > etc.. into different folders, but that's definitely a good idea. If I > read > properly, vacation is smart enough not to get into any loops, isn't it? > > Again thanks! > > > Mark > > --- > > thomas@clark.net ---> http://www.clark.net/pub/thomas > > PBEM Eldritch --------> http://www.pmpro.com/eldritch > > [TM4463-ORG] > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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