Changes

==Sorting mail with Maildrop or Procmail==

==Sorting mail with Maildrop or Procmail==

===Installation===

===Installation===

* For sme9 and sme10

 

* For sme9

  yum install smeserver-mailsorting --enablerepo=smecontribs

  yum install smeserver-mailsorting --enablerepo=smecontribs

Procmail or maildrop is used to process your email on the server. It follows user defined rules. Common uses are to sort mail into folders or forward selected email on to other email addresses. The rules that you define are executed as email arrives in your mailbox on the server, and are independent of your email client. If you sort to folders you will need to use a IMAP mail client to read them.

Procmail or maildrop is used to process your email on the server. It follows user defined rules. Common uses are to sort mail into folders or forward selected email on to other email addresses. The rules that you define are executed as email arrives in your mailbox on the server, and are independent of your email client. If you sort to folders you will need to use a IMAP mail client to read them.

===Rule List===

===Rule List===

Each rule has links to modify or remove them.

Each rule has links to modify or remove them.

A yes* in 'copy to' copies the email to your inbox  

A yes* in 'copy to' copies the email to your inbox

 

A user defines a pattern for emails that if matched, an action occurs.

A user defines a pattern for emails that if matched, an action occurs.

{{note box|Defining a mail rule that includes characters such as "'''<nowiki>[  $ . , | \{ ^ + ? ( \</nowiki>''' " breaks the sort rules and standard mail delivery in general.  It is necessary to escape these special characters in the mail rules so that the sort rules work correctly. Special characters can be entered but you must verify they do not break mail deliver and work as expected. It is recommended you only use alphanumeric, @ and spaces.}}

{{note box|Defining a mail rule that includes characters such as "'''<nowiki>[  $ . , ' | " \{ ^ + ? ( \</nowiki>''' " breaks the sort rules and standard mail delivery in general.  It is necessary to escape these special characters in the mail rules so that the sort rules work correctly. Special characters can be entered but you must verify they do not break mail deliver and work as expected. It is recommended you only use alphanumeric, @ and spaces.}}

The rule fields are in fact regular expressions compatible with egrep. As a result the above cited characters are interpreted as structure of the language. Refer to "man egrep" for correct syntax. As an example if you want to catch mails with the subject including "[mymailinglist]", your rule will be :

The rule fields are in fact regular expressions compatible with egrep. As a result the above cited characters are interpreted as structure of the language. Refer to "man egrep" for correct syntax. As an example if you want to catch mails with the subject including "[mymailinglist]", your rule will be :

===individual setting===

===Geekmode Rules===

if you want to avoid manual editing of an individual .procmailrc to be deleted by templates

By design the mail user .procmailrc file is built from SME templates whenever a system update is performed. You can disable that action by enabling "geekmode", using the command below. With that done, you may write your own .procmailrc file and place it in the appropriate mail directory.

  db accounts setprop USERNAME geekmode enabled

  db accounts setprop USERNAME geekmode enabled

===Testing===

===Testing===

* For Procmail

* For Procmail

  less /home/e-smith/files/users/USERNAME/.procmailrc

  less /home/e-smith/files/users/USERNAME/.procmailrc

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