procmail is an email server software component — specifically, a message delivery agent (MDA). It was one of the earliest mail filter programs. It is typically...
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filtering software for Unix-like operating systems, similar to fetchmail and procmail. It was started in 2006 by Nicholas Marriott who later also started tmux...
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customization of the specifics of mail delivery to a user. On Unix-like systems, procmail and maildrop are the most popular MDAs. The Local Mail Transfer Protocol...
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Maildrop is written in C++. However, it uses resources more efficiently than procmail (written in C) by saving large messages to a temporary file rather than...
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or aggregated lines, such as the sum or max. In email, a language like procmail can specify conditions to match on some emails, and what actions to take...
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typically implemented with a data-driven programming language, such as procmail, which specifies conditions to match and actions to take on matching, which...
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programming language, similar to earlier email filtering languages such as procmail and maildrop, and earlier line-oriented languages such as sed and AWK:...
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local MTA/Message transfer agent or invoking a mail delivery agent like procmail, maildrop, or sendmail; delivering directly to mail folders such as maildir...
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the Authors Guild in 2017. As a reaction to poor user experience with procmail configuration at Panix, in 1993 Gleick founded The Pipeline, one of the...
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Libraesva MailChannels MailScanner Mailtraq MDaemon Mimecast MIMEDefang procmail Proxmox Mail Gateway PureMessage Rspamd SurfControl SpamAssassin Thexyz...
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supports this, whenever new mail arrives. Mail filter programs such as procmail can be made to pipe all incoming mail through Apache SpamAssassin with...
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include e. g. Cleancode eMail, CURL, himalaya, mail (Unix), mailx, MH, procmail, sendmail, and many others. Text-based web browser Comparison of email...
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should be chosen such that it could be sufficient to accomplish one's goal. Procmail Mail delivery agent Squeeze page What is an email auto-responder?, retrieved...
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server Stalwart Mail Server, SMTP and IMAP server implemented in Rust procmail Dovecot delivery agent maildrop getmail, a Maildir-aware mail-retrieval...
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lockfile command (a conditional semaphore-file creator distributed in the procmail package). System calls that create a file, but fail if the file already...
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and are the start of the user agent; traditionally this was done via procmail, while today it may be done via server-side programs, often using spam...
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and management of two widely distributed Unix e-mail tools: Sendmail and Procmail. In 1997, Mulligan testified before Congress on electronic commerce and...
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local and IMAP/POP3/NNTP) dmail: an MDA (Mail Delivery Agent) for use with procmail tmail: an MDA for use with the system mailer (e.g. sendmail, postfix, etc...
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