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Proc Mail

Contributed by Brian McNamara

Update! Here is a more recent discussion that Brian has created.
It includes details on how to enable SpamAssassin to filter out the ever increasing pile of spam ending up in your Inbox.

I find this a very good introduction. It's kinda long, but straightforward.

For quick reference, a portion of my .procmailrc says

    MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail       # Make sure this directory exists!

    # ...

    :0:
    * ^Subject: .*\[slush\]
    in-fluff

and my .forward file on lennon (my mailhome) says

"|/usr/local/bin/procmail"

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