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Procmail
Jul 20, 2023
Local mail delivery agent
The procmail mail processing program can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort your incoming mail into separate folders/files real convenient when subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritising your mail, preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation for different types of mail or selectively forward certain incoming mail automatically to someone.
Procmail can be used - and installed by an unprivileged user for himself only. - as a drop in replacement for the local delivery agent /bin/mail with biff/comsat support. - as a general mailfilter for whole groups of messages e.g. when called from within sendmail.cf rules.
The accompanying formail program enables you to generate autoreplies, split up digests/mailboxes into the original messages, do some very simple header-munging/extraction, or force mail into mail-format with leading From line.
Checkout these related ports:
- Xpbiff -
- Xmailwatcher - Mailbox checker which displays sender and subject lines of mails
- Xmailbox - Mailbox checker with sound and animation for X Window System
- Xmail - X-based interface to the Berkeley mail program
- Xfce4-mailwatch-plugin - Mail notification applet for the Xfce panel
- Xfaces - Display shaped icons for mail spool contents
- Xcite - Exciting Cite for any Mail/News reading modes on Emacs
- Xbuffy - Replacement for xbiff that handles multiple mail files
- X-face-e21 - X-Face utilities for Emacs
- Wmmaiload - Incoming mail monitor dockapp with a similar look to wmcpuload
- Wmbiff -
- Whoson - Implementation of `WHO iS ONline' protocol
- Websieve - Web based Cyrus IMAP user admin client
- Wanderlust - Mail and news system for Emacs
- Vrfy - Verify mail address