[oclug] Getting procmail working on SME/e-smith 5.6

[Jim Little]

Quoting "Michael P. Soulier":

> On 12/11/03 Jim Little did speaketh:
> 
> > Does anyone know a quick way to get procmail working with the
> > default qmail setup on SME server?  I have created an
> > ...
[snip bad solution]
> 
>     I wouldn't go that route. Leave the run file alone. Run procmail on
> an individual user basis, they'll all want to control their own
> filtering anyway. 
>     In the user panel, forward all mail for a user that wants to use
> procmail to, for example, <userid>-filter. Then, they need to put a
> .qmail-filter file in their home directory, with...
> 
> [msoulier at tigger msoulier]$ cat .qmail-filter 
> | preline /usr/bin/procmail ~/.procmailrc
> 
>     Then they can filter any way they like in their ~/.procmailrc file. 

Thanks for this excellent suggestion.  I didn't realize you could do this.
It works really well and is elegant.

If I wanted to establish a global procmail filter that would be applied
to all incoming messages (like adding a lines field or scanning attachments)
is there an equally easy way to do this (short of creating filter files for
all users and sourcing a global procmailrc file)?

Regards,

Jim