VPS v2 Support Documentation

Procmail - E-Mail Sorting and Filtering Utility

Procmail is an Email processing utility and language. It can be used to filter incoming Email and process it.

Installation

Procmail can be installed in two different ways on your Virtual Private Server. The best way is to use procmail as your Local Delivery Agent (LDA).

To install procmail as your LDA, run the following command as root from your Virtual Private Server SSH or Telnet command prompt:

% vinstall procmail-lda

There are some occasions when you might want to have procmail available without having it as your LDA. You can install procmail without configuring it as your LDA by running the following command as root from your Virtual Private Server command prompt:

% vinstall procmail

Configuring Procmail

You can customize the behavior of procmail by creating a procmailrc file. The file must be located in your /usr/local/etc/ directory, or a user can have a .procmailrc file in their home directory.

The following document discusses a few good mail filtering recipes you can create for procmail.

• Mail Filtering with Procmail

Documentation

• Mail Filtering with Procmail
• Procmail Man Page
• Procmailrc Man Page
• Procmailsc Man Page
• Procmailex Man Page
• Formail Man Page
• Lockfile Man Page