Useful mail tool for Unix users ..

["Arun Rao" <rao@quattro>]

	Fellow Unix users on the quattro list,

	I just configured procmail to automatically redirect all mail from the
quattro
	list to a separate folder, which I can read at leisure. Many of you
with
	Unix machines probably use it already, but here's how I did it just in
	case it's useful to someone:

	Create a .forward file in your home directory with the following
contents:

"|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #your_login_name"

	Create a .procmailrc file in your home directory with the following
contents:

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail      #you'd better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=/usr/mail/<your login>  #your system mailbox.
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from   # creates a log file, which you may or may not want.

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* ^Return-Path: <owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Lists/quattroList


	The last line in the .procmailrc file is the name of the folder
(relative to
	MAILDIR) where you want to save mail from the quattro list. Also,
procmail
	may have a different path (/usr/local/bin/procmail on mine) on your
machine.


	Works like a charm: hope this will be of use to someone.

	-Arun


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