Author: Last Man Standing
Email: mike@vu.com
Date Submitted: Thur, Apr 16, 1998
Edited By: Magnus Schoultz da96scma@ing.hj.se
Status: New Entry

Releases: 5.0 and 4.x
Platform: all
Category:  Email
Category Listing:  How do I filter my incoming email?

Issue

Procmail is a program that is invoked automatically as soon
as  mail  arrives.  When invoked it looks  for  file  named
$HOME/.procmailrc. According to the processing recipes
in this file, the mail  message  that just arrived gets
distributed  into the right folder (and more). If no rcfile
is found, or processing of the rcfile falls off the end,
procmail will store the mail in the default system mailbox.

Response


- use following rule in ~/.procmailrc to append incoming mail from the devnull mailing list to the file "devnull" with only the "From:", "Subject:", and "Date:" header lines.

:0 * ^From: Nev Dull | formail -k -X From: -X Subject: -X Date: >> devnull

References

manpages
procmail(1), procmailrc(5), procmailsc(5), procmailex(5), formail(1)