procmail filter for mailinglist

[Jay Daniels]

On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 23:15 -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
> 
> Jay Daniels wrote:
> > I need an automatic procmail filter for list.  This does not seem to
> > work - for this list anyway.  What am I missing?
> > 
> > :0
> > * ^X-BeenThere_.*ubuntu-users@
> > lists.ubuntu-users/
> > 
> > :0                                    # Majordomo lists
> > * ^Sender: owner-\/[-a-zA-Z0-9_.]*
> > list.$MATCH/
> > 
> > :0 
> > * ^X-Mailing-List: <\/[-a-zA-Z0-9_.]*   # SmartList lists
> > list.$MATCH/
> > 
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > jay
> > 
> > ps: I thought that procmail would auto create the folder, is this
> > correct?  I am using Maildir.
> > 
> 
> When I'm building filters for Thunderbird for this list I use to or cc.
> 
> When I set up procmail for spam filtering for a client using maildir I
> had to do some magic in .forward:
> 
> "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #name"
> 
> where name is the users name.
> 
> it will create the folder, but maybe not where you expect. In the cases
> you listed above, lists.ubuntu-users/ will end up in $HOME/Maildir, not
> in $HOME/Maildir/new.
> 

I ran into a problem with this pipe to IFS line.  It seems fetchmail
does not use .forward at all.


jay