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PROCMAILRC(5)                          File Formats Manual                          PROCMAILRC(5)



NAME
       procmailrc - procmail rcfile

SYNOPSIS
       $HOME/.procmailrc

DESCRIPTION
       For a quick start, see NOTES at the end of the procmail(1) man page.

       The  rcfile  can contain a mixture of environment variable assignments (some of which have
       special meanings to procmail), and recipes.  In their most simple appearance, the  recipes
       are  simply one line regular expressions that are searched for in the header of the arriv‐
       ing mail.  The first recipe that matches is used to determine where the  mail  has  to  go
       (usually  a  file).   If processing falls off the end of the rcfile, procmail will deliver
       the mail to $DEFAULT.

       There are two kinds of recipes: delivering and non-delivering recipes.   If  a  delivering
       recipe  is found to match, procmail considers the mail (you guessed it) delivered and will
       cease processing the rcfile after having successfully executed  the  action  line  of  the
       recipe.   If a non-delivering recipe is found to match, processing of the rcfile will con‐
       tinue after the action line of this recipe has been executed.

       Delivering recipes are those that cause header and/or body of the mail to be: written into
       a file, absorbed by a program or forwarded to a mailaddress.

       Non-delivering  recipes are: those that cause the output of a program or filter to be cap‐
       tured back by procmail or those that start a nesting block.

       You can tell procmail to treat a delivering recipe as if it were a  non-delivering  recipe
       by  specifying  the  `c' flag on such a recipe.  This will make procmail generate a carbon
       copy of the mail by delivering it to this recipe, yet continue processing the rcfile.

       By using any number of recipes you can presort your mail  extremely  straightforward  into
       several  mailfolders.   Bear in mind though that the mail can arrive concurrently in these
       mailfolders (if several procmail programs happen to run at the same time, not unlikely  if
       a  lot of mail arrives).  To make sure this does not result in a mess, proper use of lock‐
       files is highly recommended.

       The environment variable assignments and recipes can be freely intermixed in  the  rcfile.
       If  any  environment variable has a special meaning to procmail, it will be used appropri‐
       ately the moment it is parsed (i.e., you can change the  current  directory  whenever  you
       want  by  specifying  a new MAILDIR, switch lockfiles by specifying a new LOCKFILE, change
       the umask at any time, etc., the possibilities are endless :-).

       The assignments and substitutions of these environment variables are handled exactly  like
       in sh(1) (that includes all possible quotes and escapes), with the added bonus that blanks
       around the '=' sign are ignored and that, if an environment  variable  appears  without  a
       trailing  '=', it will be removed from the environment.  Any program in backquotes started
       by procmail will have the entire mail at its stdin.

   Comments
       A word beginning with # and all the following characters up  to  a  NEWLINE  are  ignored.
       This does not apply to condition lines, which cannot be commented.

   Recipes
       A line starting with ':' marks the beginning of a recipe.  It has the following format:

              :0 [flags] [ : [locallockfile] ]
              <zero or more conditions (one per line)>
              <exactly one action line>

       Conditions  start  with a leading `*', everything after that character is passed on to the
       internal egrep literally, except for  leading  and  trailing  whitespace.   These  regular
       expressions are completely compatible to the normal egrep(1) extended regular expressions.
       See also Extended regular expressions.

       Conditions are anded; if there are no conditions the result will be true by default.

       Flags can be any of the following:

       H    Egrep the header (default).

       B    Egrep the body.

       D    Tell the internal egrep to distinguish between upper and lower case (contrary to  the
            default which is to ignore case).

       A    This  recipe  will not be executed unless the conditions on the last preceding recipe
            (on the current block-nesting level) without the `A' or `a'  flag  matched  as  well.
            This allows you to chain actions that depend on a common condition.

       a    Has  the same meaning as the `A' flag, with the additional condition that the immedi‐
            ately preceding recipe must have been successfully completed before  this  recipe  is
            executed.

       E    This recipe only executes if the immediately preceding recipe was not executed.  Exe‐
            cution of this recipe also disables any immediately following recipes  with  the  'E'
            flag.  This allows you to specify `else if' actions.

       e    This  recipe  only  executes  if  the  immediately preceding recipe failed (i.e., the
            action line was attempted, but resulted in an error).

       h    Feed the header to the pipe, file or mail destination (default).

       b    Feed the body to the pipe, file or mail destination (default).

       f    Consider the pipe as a filter.

       c    Generate a carbon copy of this mail.  This only makes sense  on  delivering  recipes.
            The  only  non-delivering recipe this flag has an effect on is on a nesting block, in
            order to generate a carbon copy this will clone the running procmail  process  (lock‐
            files  will not be inherited), whereby the clone will proceed as usual and the parent
            will jump across the block.

       w    Wait for the filter or program to finish and check its exitcode  (normally  ignored);
            if the filter is unsuccessful, then the text will not have been filtered.

       W    Has  the  same  meaning as the `w' flag, but will suppress any `Program failure' mes‐
            sage.

       i    Ignore any write errors on this recipe (i.e., usually due to an early closed pipe).

       r    Raw mode, do not try to ensure the mail ends with an empty line, write it out as is.

       There are some special conditions you can use that are not straight  regular  expressions.
       To select them, the condition must start with:

       !    Invert the condition.

       $    Evaluate the remainder of this condition according to sh(1) substitution rules inside
            double quotes, skip leading whitespace, then reparse it.

       ?    Use the exitcode of the specified program.

       <    Check if the total length of the mail is shorter than the specified (in decimal) num‐
            ber of bytes.

       >    Analogous to '<'.

       variablename ??
            Match  the remainder of this condition against the value of this environment variable
            (which cannot be a pseudo variable).  A special case is if variablename is  equal  to
            `B',  `H',  `HB'  or  `BH'; this merely overrides the default header/body search area
            defined by the initial flags on this recipe.

       \    To quote any of the above at the start of the line.

   Local lockfile
       If you put a second (trailing) ':' on the first recipe line,  then  procmail  will  use  a
       locallockfile  (for  this  recipe  only).  You can optionally specify the locallockfile to
       use; if you don't however, procmail will use the destination  filename  (or  the  filename
       following the first '>>') and will append $LOCKEXT to it.

   Recipe action line
       The action line can start with the following characters:

       !      Forwards to all the specified mail addresses.

       |      Starts  the  specified program, possibly in $SHELL if any of the characters $SHELL‐
              METAS are spotted.  You can optionally prepend this  pipe  symbol  with  variable=,
              which  will  cause stdout of the program to be captured in the environment variable
              (procmail will not terminate processing the rcfile at this point).  If you  specify
              just  this  pipe  symbol,  without any program, then procmail will pipe the mail to
              stdout.

       {      Followed by at least one space, tab or newline will mark the  start  of  a  nesting
              block.   Everything  up  till  the next closing brace will depend on the conditions
              specified for this recipe.  Unlimited nesting  is  permitted.   The  closing  brace
              exists  merely to delimit the block, it will not cause procmail to terminate in any
              way.  If the end of a block is reached processing will continue as usual after  the
              block.   On a nesting block, the flags `H' and `B' only affect the conditions lead‐
              ing up to the block, the flags `h' and `b' have no effect whatsoever.

       Anything else will be taken as a mailbox name (either a filename or a directory,  absolute
       or  relative  to  the current directory (see MAILDIR)).  If it is a (possibly yet nonexis‐
       tent) filename, the mail will be appended to it.

       If it is a directory, the mail will be delivered to a  newly  created,  guaranteed  to  be
       unique  file  named  $MSGPREFIX*  in the specified directory.  If the mailbox name ends in
       "/.", then this directory is presumed to be an MH folder; i.e., procmail will use the next
       number  it  finds available.  If the mailbox name ends in "/", then this directory is pre‐
       sumed to be a maildir folder; i.e., procmail will deliver the message to a file in a  sub‐
       directory named "tmp" and rename it to be inside a subdirectory named "new".  If the mail‐
       box is specified to be an MH folder or maildir folder, procmail will create the  necessary
       directories if they don't exist, rather than treat the mailbox as a non-existent filename.
       When procmail is delivering to  directories,  you  can  specify  multiple  directories  to
       deliver to (procmail will do so utilising hardlinks).

   Environment variable defaults
       LOGNAME, HOME and SHELL
                             Your (the recipient's) defaults

       PATH                  $HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin (Except during the processing
                             of an /etc/procmailrc file, when it will be set to `/usr/local/bin
                             :/usr/bin:/bin'.)

       SHELLMETAS            &|<>~;?*[

       SHELLFLAGS            -c

       ORGMAIL               /var/mail/$LOGNAME
                             (Unless -m has been specified, in which case it is unset)

       MAILDIR               $HOME/mail
                             (Unless the name of the first successfully opened rcfile starts with
                             `./' or if -m has been specified, in which case it defaults to `.')

       DEFAULT               $ORGMAIL

       MSGPREFIX             msg.

       SENDMAIL              /usr/sbin/sendmail

       SENDMAILFLAGS         -oi

       HOST                  The current hostname

       COMSAT                no
                             (If an rcfile is specified on the command line)

       PROCMAIL_VERSION      3.23pre

       LOCKEXT               .lock

       Other cleared or preset environment variables are IFS, ENV and PWD.

       For security reasons, upon startup procmail will wipe out all environment  variables  that
       are suspected of modifying the behavior of the runtime linker.

   Environment
       Before  you  get  lost in the multitude of environment variables, keep in mind that all of
       them have reasonable defaults.

       MAILDIR     Current directory while procmail is executing (that means that all  paths  are
                   relative to $MAILDIR).

       DEFAULT     Default  mailbox  file (if not told otherwise, procmail will dump mail in this
                   mailbox).  Procmail will automatically use $DEFAULT$LOCKEXT as lockfile  prior
                   to  writing  to  this mailbox.  You do not need to set this variable, since it
                   already points to the standard system mailbox.

       LOGFILE     This file will also contain any error or  diagnostic  messages  from  procmail
                   (normally none :-) or any other programs started by procmail.  If this file is
                   not specified, any diagnostics or error messages will be mailed  back  to  the
                   sender.  See also LOGABSTRACT.

       VERBOSE     You  can  turn  on  extended  diagnostics by setting this variable to `yes' or
                   `on', to turn it off again set it to `no' or `off'.

       LOGABSTRACT Just before procmail exits it logs an abstract of  the  delivered  message  in
                   $LOGFILE  showing the `From ' and `Subject:' fields of the header, what folder
                   it finally went to and how long (in bytes) the message was.  By  setting  this
                   variable to `no', generation of this abstract is suppressed.  If you set it to
                   `all', procmail will log an abstract for every successful delivering recipe it
                   processes.

       LOG         Anything assigned to this variable will be appended to $LOGFILE.

       ORGMAIL     Usually  the  system  mailbox (ORiGinal MAILbox).  If, for some obscure reason
                   (like `filesystem full') the mail could not be delivered,  then  this  mailbox
                   will  be  the  last resort.  If procmail fails to save the mail in here (deep,
                   deep trouble :-), then the mail will bounce back to the sender.

       LOCKFILE    Global semaphore file.  If this file already exists, procmail will wait  until
                   it  has gone before proceeding, and will create it itself (cleaning it up when
                   ready, of course).  If more than one lockfile are specified, then the previous
                   one  will be removed before trying to create the new one.  The use of a global
                   lockfile is discouraged, whenever possible use locallockfiles (on a per recipe
                   basis) instead.

       LOCKEXT     Default  extension  that  is  appended to a destination file to determine what
                   local lockfile to use (only if turned on, on a per-recipe basis).

       LOCKSLEEP   Number of seconds procmail will sleep before retrying on  a  lockfile  (if  it
                   already existed); if not specified, it defaults to 8 seconds.

       LOCKTIMEOUT Number  of  seconds  that  have to have passed since a lockfile was last modi‐
                   fied/created before procmail decides that this must be an erroneously leftover
                   lockfile  that  can be removed by force now.  If zero, then no timeout will be
                   used and procmail will wait forever until the  lockfile  is  removed;  if  not
                   specified,  it  defaults  to 1024 seconds.  This variable is useful to prevent
                   indefinite hangups of sendmail/procmail.  Procmail is  immune  to  clock  skew
                   across machines.

       TIMEOUT     Number  of  seconds that have to have passed before procmail decides that some
                   child it started must be hanging.  The offending program will receive a TERMI‐
                   NATE  signal  from  procmail,  and processing of the rcfile will continue.  If
                   zero, then no timeout will be used and procmail will wait  forever  until  the
                   child has terminated; if not specified, it defaults to 960 seconds.

       MSGPREFIX   Filename  prefix  that  is  used when delivering to a directory (not used when
                   delivering to a maildir or an MH directory).

       HOST        If this is not the hostname of the machine, processing of the  current  rcfile
                   will  immediately  cease. If other rcfiles were specified on the command line,
                   processing will continue with the next one.  If all rcfiles are exhausted, the
                   program will terminate, but will not generate an error (i.e., to the mailer it
                   will seem that the mail has been delivered).

       UMASK       The name says it all (if it doesn't, then forget about this one :-).  Anything
                   assigned  to  UMASK  is taken as an octal number.  If not specified, the umask
                   defaults to 077.  If the umask permits o+x, all the mailboxes procmail  deliv‐
                   ers to directly will receive an o+x mode change.  This can be used to check if
                   new mail arrived.

       SHELLMETAS  If any of the characters in SHELLMETAS appears in the line specifying a filter
                   or program, the line will be fed to $SHELL instead of being executed directly.

       SHELLFLAGS  Any invocation of $SHELL will be like:
                   "$SHELL" "$SHELLFLAGS" "$*";

       SENDMAIL    If  you're  not  using the forwarding facility don't worry about this one.  It
                   specifies the program being called to forward any mail.
                   It gets invoked as: "$SENDMAIL" $SENDMAILFLAGS "$@";

       NORESRETRY  Number of retries that are to be made if any `process table full', `file table
                   full',  `out  of  memory'  or `out of swap space' error should occur.  If this
                   number is negative, then procmail will retry indefinitely; if  not  specified,
                   it  defaults  to  4 times.  The retries occur with a $SUSPEND second interval.
                   The idea behind this is that if, e.g., the swap space has  been  exhausted  or
                   the  process  table is full, usually several other programs will either detect
                   this as well and abort or crash 8-), thereby freeing  valuable  resources  for
                   procmail.

       SUSPEND     Number  of  seconds  that  procmail will pause if it has to wait for something
                   that is currently unavailable (memory, fork, etc.); if not specified, it  will
                   default to 16 seconds.  See also: LOCKSLEEP.

       LINEBUF     Length  of  the  internal  line  buffers, cannot be set smaller than 128.  All
                   lines read from the rcfile should not exceed $LINEBUF  characters  before  and
                   after  expansion.   If  not  specified,  it  defaults to 2048.  This limit, of
                   course, does not apply to the mail  itself,  which  can  have  arbitrary  line
                   lengths,  or  could be a binary file for that matter.  See also PROCMAIL_OVER‐
                   FLOW.

       DELIVERED   If set to `yes' procmail will pretend (to the mail agent) the  mail  has  been
                   delivered.   If mail cannot be delivered after having met this assignment (set
                   to `yes'), the mail will be lost (i.e., it will not bounce).

       TRAP        When procmail terminates of its own accord and not because it received a  sig‐
                   nal, it will execute the contents of this variable.  A copy of the mail can be
                   read from stdin.  Any output produced by this  command  will  be  appended  to
                   $LOGFILE.   Possible  uses  for  TRAP are: removal of temporary files, logging
                   customised abstracts, etc.  See also EXITCODE and LOGABSTRACT.

       EXITCODE    By default, procmail returns an exitcode of zero (success) if it  successfully
                   delivered  the  message  or  if the HOST variable was misset and there were no
                   more rcfiles on the command line; otherwise it returns failure.  Before  doing
                   so,  procmail examines the value of this variable.  If it is set to a positive
                   numeric value, procmail will instead use that value as its exitcode.  If  this
                   variable  is  set but empty and TRAP is set, procmail will set the exitcode to
                   whatever the TRAP program returns.  If this variable is not set, procmail will
                   set it shortly before calling up the TRAP program.

       LASTFOLDER  This variable is assigned to by procmail whenever it is delivering to a folder
                   or program.  It always contains the name of the last file (or  program)  proc‐
                   mail  delivered  to.   If  the  last delivery was to several directory folders
                   together then $LASTFOLDER will contain the hardlinked  filenames  as  a  space
                   separated list.

       MATCH       This  variable  is assigned to by procmail whenever it is told to extract text
                   from a matching regular expression.  It will contain  all  text  matching  the
                   regular expression past the `\/' token.

       SHIFT       Assigning a positive value to this variable has the same effect as the `shift'
                   command in sh(1).  This command is most  useful  to  extract  extra  arguments
                   passed to procmail when acting as a generic mailfilter.

       INCLUDERC   Names  an  rcfile  (relative  to the current directory) which will be included
                   here as if it were part of the current rcfile.  Nesting is permitted and  only
                   limited by systems resources (memory and file descriptors).  As no checking is
                   done on the permissions or ownership of the rcfile, users of INCLUDERC  should
                   make  sure that only trusted users have write access to the included rcfile or
                   the directory it is in.  Command line assignments to INCLUDERC have no effect.

       SWITCHRC    Names an rcfile (relative to the current directory) to which  processing  will
                   be  switched.   If  the  named rcfile doesn't exist or is not a normal file or
                   /dev/null then an error will be logged and processing  will  continue  in  the
                   current  rcfile.   Otherwise, processing of the current rcfile will be aborted
                   and the named rcfile started.  Unsetting SWITCHRC  aborts  processing  of  the
                   current  rcfile  as  if it had ended at the assignment.  As with INCLUDERC, no
                   checking is done on the permissions or ownership of  the  rcfile  and  command
                   line assignments have no effect.

       PROCMAIL_VERSION
                   The version number of the running procmail binary.

       PROCMAIL_OVERFLOW
                   This  variable  will  be set to a non-empty value if procmail detects a buffer
                   overflow.  See the BUGS section below for  other  details  of  operation  when
                   overflow occurs.

       COMSAT      Comsat(8)/biff(1)  notification is on by default, it can be turned off by set‐
                   ting this variable to `no'.  Alternatively the biff-service can be  customised
                   by  setting it to either `service@', `@hostname', or `service@hostname'.  When
                   not specified it defaults to biff@localhost.

       DROPPRIVS   If set to `yes' procmail will drop all privileges it might have had  (suid  or
                   sgid).   This  is only useful if you want to guarantee that the bottom half of
                   the /etc/procmailrc file is executed on behalf of the recipient.

   Extended regular expressions
       The following tokens are known to both  the  procmail  internal  egrep  and  the  standard
       egrep(1) (beware that some egrep implementations include other non-standard extensions; in
       particular, the repetition operator { is not supported by procmail's egrep):

       ^         Start of a line.

       $         End of a line.

       .         Any character except a newline.

       a*        Any sequence of zero or more a's.

       a+        Any sequence of one or more a's.

       a?        Either zero or one a.

       [^-a-d]   Any character which is not either a dash, a, b, c, d or newline.

       de|abc    Either the sequence `de' or `abc'.

       (abc)*    Zero or more times the sequence `abc'.

       \.        Matches a single dot; use \ to quote any of the magic characters to get  rid  of
                 their special meaning.  See also $\ variable substitution.

       These were only samples, of course, any more complex combination is valid as well.

       The following token meanings are special procmail extensions:

       ^ or $    Match a newline (for multiline matches).

       ^^        Anchor the expression at the very start of the search area, or if encountered at
                 the end of the expression, anchor it at the very end of the search area.

       \< or \>  Match the character before or after a word.  They are  merely  a  shorthand  for
                 `[^a-zA-Z0-9_]',  but  can also match newlines.  Since they match actual charac‐
                 ters, they are only suitable to delimit words, not to delimit inter-word space.

       \/        Splits the expression in two parts.  Everything matching the right part will  be
                 assigned to the MATCH environment variable.

EXAMPLES
       Look in the procmailex(5) man page.

CAVEATS
       Continued  lines  in an action line that specifies a program always have to end in a back‐
       slash, even if the underlying shell would not need or want the backslash to indicate  con‐
       tinuation.   This  is due to the two pass parsing process needed (first procmail, then the
       shell (or not, depending on SHELLMETAS)).

       Don't put comments on the regular expression condition lines in a recipe, these lines  are
       fed  to  the internal egrep literally (except for continuation backslashes at the end of a
       line).

       Leading whitespace on continued regular expression condition lines is usually ignored  (so
       that  they  can  be  indented),  but  not  on continued condition lines that are evaluated
       according to the sh(1) substitution rules inside double quotes.

       Watch out for deadlocks when doing unhealthy things  like  forwarding  mail  to  your  own
       account.  Deadlocks can be broken by proper use of LOCKTIMEOUT.

       Any  default  values that procmail has for some environment variables will always override
       the ones that were already defined.  If you really want  to  override  the  defaults,  you
       either have to put them in the rcfile or on the command line as arguments.

       The  /etc/procmailrc file cannot change the PATH setting seen by user rcfiles as the value
       is reset when procmail finishes the /etc/procmailrc file.  While future  enhancements  are
       expected  in  this area, recompiling procmail with the desired value is currently the only
       correct solution.

       Environment variables set inside the shell-interpreted-`|' action part of  a  recipe  will
       not  retain  their value after the recipe has finished since they are set in a subshell of
       procmail.  To make sure the value of an environment variable is retained you have  to  put
       the  assignment to the variable before the leading `|' of a recipe, so that it can capture
       stdout of the program.

       If you specify only a `h' or a `b' flag on a delivering recipe, and  the  recipe  matches,
       then, unless the `c' flag is present as well, the body respectively the header of the mail
       will be silently lost.

SEE ALSO
       procmail(1), procmailsc(5), procmailex(5), sh(1), csh(1), mail(1), mailx(1), uucp(1),
       aliases(5), sendmail(8), egrep(1), regexp(5), grep(1), biff(1), comsat(8), lockfile(1),
       formail(1)

BUGS
       The only substitutions of environment variables that can be handled by procmail itself are
       of  the  type  $name,  ${name},  ${name:-text}, ${name:+text}, ${name-text}, ${name+text},
       $\name, $#, $n, $$, $?, $_, $- and $=; whereby $\name will be substituted by the  all-mag‐
       ic-regular-expression-characters-disarmed  equivalent of $name, $_ by the name of the cur‐
       rent rcfile, $- by $LASTFOLDER and $= will contain the score of the last recipe.  Further‐
       more, the result of $\name substitution will never be split on whitespace.  When the -a or
       -m options are used, $# will expand to the number of arguments so specified and "$@"  (the
       quotes  are  required) will expand to the specified arguments.  However, "$@" will only be
       expanded when used in the argument list to a program, and then only  one  such  occurrence
       will be expanded.

       Unquoted  variable  expansions  performed  by procmail are always split on space, tab, and
       newline characters; the IFS variable is not used internally.

       Procmail does not support the expansion of `~'.

       A line buffer of length $LINEBUF is used when processing the rcfile, any  expansions  that
       don't  fit  within this limit will be truncated and PROCMAIL_OVERFLOW will be set.  If the
       overflowing line is a condition or an action line, then it will be considered  failed  and
       procmail  will  continue  processing.  If it is a variable assignment or recipe start line
       then procmail will abort the entire rcfile.

       If the global lockfile has a relative path, and the current directory is not the  same  as
       when  the  global  lockfile  was  created, then the global lockfile will not be removed if
       procmail exits at that point (remedy: use absolute paths to specify global lockfiles).

       If an rcfile has a relative path and when the rcfile is first opened  MAILDIR  contains  a
       relative  path, and if at one point procmail is instructed to clone itself and the current
       directory has changed since the rcfile was opened, then procmail will not be able to clone
       itself (remedy: use an absolute path to reference the rcfile or make sure MAILDIR contains
       an absolute path as the rcfile is opened).

       A locallockfile on the recipe that marks the start of a non-forking nested block does  not
       work as expected.

       When  capturing  stdout  from  a recipe into an environment variable, exactly one trailing
       newline will be stripped.

       Some non-optimal and non-obvious regexps set MATCH to an incorrect value.  The regexp  can
       be  made  to  work by removing one or more unneeded '*', '+', or '?' operator on the left-
       hand side of the \/ token.

MISCELLANEOUS
       If the regular expression contains `^TO_' it will be substituted by
       `(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-
       Z0-9_.])?)', which should catch all destination specifications containing a specific
       address.

       If the regular expression contains `^TO' it will be substituted by
       `(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^a-zA-
       Z])?)', which should catch all destination specifications containing a specific word.

       If the regular expression contains `^FROM_DAEMON' it will be substituted by `(^(Mailing-
       List:|Precedence:.*(junk|bulk|list)|To: Multiple recipients of |(((Resent-)?(From|Sender)
       |X-Envelope-From):|>?From )([^>]*[^(.%@a-z0-9])?(Post(ma?(st(e?r)?|n)|office)
       |(send)?Mail(er)?|daemon|m(mdf|ajordomo)|n?uucp|LIST(SERV|proc)|NETSERV|o(wner|ps)
       |r(e(quest|sponse)|oot)|b(ounce|bs\.smtp)|echo|mirror|s(erv(ices?|er)|mtp(error)?|ystem)
       |A(dmin(istrator)?|MMGR|utoanswer))(([^).!:a-z0-9][-_a-z0-9]*)?[%@>\t
       ][^<)]*(\(.*\).*)?)?$([^>]|$)))', which should catch mails coming from most daemons (how's
       that for a regular expression :-).

       If the regular expression contains `^FROM_MAILER' it will be substituted by
       `(^(((Resent-)?(From|Sender)|X-Envelope-From):|>?From )([^>]*[^(.%@a-
       z0-9])?(Post(ma(st(er)?|n)|office)|(send)?Mail(er)?|daemon|mmdf|n?uucp|ops|r(esponse|oot)
       |(bbs\.)?smtp(error)?|s(erv(ices?|er)|ystem)|A(dmin(istrator)?|MMGR))(([^).!:a-z0-9][-_a-
       z0-9]*)?[%@>\t ][^<)]*(\(.*\).*)?)?$([^>]|$))' (a stripped down version of
       `^FROM_DAEMON'), which should catch mails coming from most mailer-daemons.

       When assigning boolean values to variables like VERBOSE, DELIVERED or COMSAT, procmail ac‐
       cepts as true every string starting with: a non-zero value, `on', `y', `t' or `e'.   False
       is every string starting with: a zero value, `off', `n', `f' or `d'.

       If the action line of a recipe specifies a program, a sole backslash-newline pair in it on
       an otherwise empty line will be converted into a newline.

       The regular expression engine built into procmail does not support named character  class‐
       es.

NOTES
       Since unquoted leading whitespace is generally ignored in the rcfile you can indent every‐
       thing to taste.

       The leading `|' on the action line to specify a  program  or  filter  is  stripped  before
       checking for $SHELLMETAS.

       Files  included  with the INCLUDERC directive containing only environment variable assign‐
       ments can be shared with sh.

       The current behavior of assignments on the command line to INCLUDERC and SWITCHRC  is  not
       guaranteed,  has  been changed once already, and may be changed again or removed in future
       releases.

       For really complicated processing you can even consider calling procmail recursively.

       In the old days, the `:0' that marks the beginning of a recipe, had to be changed to `:n',
       whereby `n' denotes the number of conditions that follow.

AUTHORS
       Stephen R. van den Berg
              <srb AT cuci.nl>
       Philip A. Guenther
              <guenther AT sendmail.com>



BuGless                                     2001/08/04                              PROCMAILRC(5)


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