The procmail mail processing agent is very powerful but often confusing. Visit this powerful application with Jack Wallen, Jr. as he helps you understand procmail's sometimes archaic language. Imagine ...

Dreamhost hosts over half a million domains, luring customers with cheap rates and acres of storage and bandwidth. They've also been historically pretty good in terms of using open tools and standards ...

First of all, thanks a whole lot to anybody offering any help.<BR><BR>My situation is this:<BR>I have a qmail server set up (pretty much stock from lifewithqmail.org) and I'd essentially like to ...

Q: I use sendmail and a POP mail server on a Linux box. I am desperately looking for a way to filter incoming messages processed by sendmail based on their subject names and enclosure names. I would ...

Most users don't need to know any of this. If you do, or if you're interested in highly technical details, read on... Mail is received at ENCS by the Postfix SMTP agent, which, by default, hands a ...

I have a bit of a complex mail system right now, and I'd like to change that. I turn, as always, to Ars for reccomendations and sage advice.<BR><BR>First, my situation: Mail comes into an IMAP/POP box ...

There are two ways that procmail can be set up. You can set it up so that each user can choose to use it (or not) or you can have it invoked through your mailer. We’re going to examine the first ...

Editor's Note: Please see Nick's March 8, 2004, update article for a new configuration that deals with bogofilter's reversed command-line switches for marking spam. macro index s "<enter-command>unset ...

In November 2002, I wrote an article called “Busting Spam with Bogofilter, Procmail and Mutt”. It contained a particularly handy configuration that took out a lot of the work of marking mail as spam ...