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- For installation instructions see the INSTALL file.
- ----------------------
- Procmail & formail mail processing package.
- Copyright (c) 1990-1999, S.R. van den Berg, The Netherlands.
-
- Some legal stuff:
-
- This package is open source software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of either:
- - the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation
- and can be found in the included file called "COPYING"; either version 2,
- or (at your option) any later version, or
- - the "Artistic License" which can be found in the included file called
- "Artistic".
-
- This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without
- any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness
- for a particular purpose. See either the GNU General Public License or the
- Artistic License for more details.
-
- For those of you that choose to use the GNU General Public License,
- my interpretation of the GNU General Public License is that no procmailrc
- script falls under the terms of the GPL unless you explicitly put
- said script under the terms of the GPL yourself.
-
- -------------------------- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS -------------------------------
-
- Any *NIX-alike (or POSIX compliant) system.
-
- Sendmail, ZMailer, smail, MMDF, mailsurr or compatible mailers (in effect any
- mailer that can process RFC-822 compliant mails).
-
- For a fairly complete list of all C-library references done in the programs
- see "src/includes.h".
-
- ------------------------------ DESCRIPTION -----------------------------------
-
- The procmail mail processing program. (v3.13.1 1999/04/05)
-
- Can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort your incoming mail
- into separate folders/files (real convenient when subscribing to one or more
- mailing lists or for prioritising your mail), preprocess your mail, start
- any programs upon mail arrival (e.g. to generate different chimes on your
- workstation for different types of mail) or selectively forward certain
- incoming mail automatically to someone.
-
- Procmail can be used:
- - and installed by an unprivileged user (for himself only).
- - as a drop in replacement for the local delivery agent /bin/mail
- (with biff/comsat support).
- - as a general mailfilter for whole groups of messages (e.g. when
- called from within sendmail.cf rules).
-
- The accompanying formail program enables you to generate autoreplies, split up
- digests/mailboxes into the original messages, do some very simple
- header-munging/extraction, or force mail into mail-format (with leading From
- line).
-
- ----------------------
-
- We made the utmost effort to make procmail as robust as any program can be
- (every conceivable system error is caught *and* handled).
-
- Since procmail is written entirely in C, it poses a very low impact
- on your system's resources (under normal conditions, when you don't
- start other programs/scripts from within it, it is faster and more
- robust than the average /bin/mail you have on your system now).
-
- Procmail was designed to deliver the mail under the worst conditions
- (file system full, out of swap space, process table full, file table full,
- missing support files, unavailable executables; it all doesn't matter).
- Should (in the unlikely event) procmail be unable to deliver your mail
- somewhere, the mail will bounce back to the sender or reenter the mailqueue
- (your choice).
-
- For a more extensive list of features see the FEATURES file.
-
- ----------------------
-
- However, as with any program, bugs cannot be completely ruled out.
- We tested the program extensively, and believe it should be relatively
- bug free (no known bug at the time). Should, however, anyone find any
- bugs (highly unlikely :-), we would be pleased (well, sort of :-) to hear
- about it. Please send us the patches or bug report; you can reach
- us by E-mail at <bug@procmail.org>.
- We'll look at them and will try to fix it in a future release.
- (BTW, if you should find any spelling or grammar errors in these files,
- don't hesitate to point them out to me; we like correct English just as much
- as you do).
-
- ----------------------
-
- I would like to take the opportunity to express my gratitude in particular
- to these devoted users of the procmail-package. Without their constant
- feedback procmail would not have looked the same:
-
- David W. Tamkin An excellent proofreader and betatester.
- <dattier@wwa.com>
- Josh Laff For stresstesting procmail (and me :-).
- <jal@uiuc.edu>
- Dan Jacobson For his many useful suggestions.
- <Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM>
- Rick Troxel Because I crashed his Convex way too often :-).
- <rick@helix.nih.gov>
- Roman Czyborra For his enthusiastic ideas.
- <czyborra@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Ari Kornfeld The guardian angel of SmartList.
- <ari@perspective.com>
- Alan K. Stebbens For his endless creativity and suggestions.
- <aks@sgi.com>
- Philip Guenther Sometimes faster at repairing bugs than I can
- <guenther@gac.edu> write them :-) He's also the current main
- coordinator of procmail/SmartList development.
- Era Eriksson For maintaining the FAQ. He's also the
- <era@iki.fi> current coordinator of the procmail volunteer
- group.
-
- ----------------------
-
- Please note that this program essentially is supposed to be static; that
- means no extra features (honouring the VNIX spirit) are supposed to be
- added (though any useful suggestions will be appreciated and evaluated if
- time permits).
-
- Cheers,
- Stephen R. van den Berg of Cubic Circle, The Netherlands.
-
- Internet E-mail: <srb@cuci.nl>
-
- Snail-Mail: Procmail Foundation
- P.O.Box 21074
- 6369 ZG Simpelveld
- The Netherlands
-
- Procmail mailinglist: <procmail-users-request@procmail.org>
- Procmail updates and patches list (readonly):
- <procmail-announce-request@procmail.org>
- SmartList mailinglist: <SmartList-users-request@procmail.org>
- SmartList updates and patches list (readonly):
- <SmartList-announce-request@procmail.org>
- Development:
- <procmail-dev-request@procmail.org> Development list for procmail
- <SmartList-dev-request@procmail.org> Development list for SmartList
- <bug@procmail.org> Coordinator of development
- <volunteers-request@procmail.org> List to coordinate volunteers
-
- ----------------------
- The most recent version can be obtained via http://www.procmail.org/
- or ftp://ftp.procmail.org/pub/procmail/
- You'll be able to find instructions there which direct you to suitable
- mirror sites around the world.
-
- We're in the process of streamlining this, there are currently some
- unofficial mirrors around the world which can still be used:
-
- ftp://ftp.net.ohio-state.edu/pub/networking/mail/procmail
- ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/unix/mail/procmail
- ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/unix/procmail
- ftp://ftp.fdt.net/pub/unix/packages/procmail
- ftp://hub.ucsb.edu/pub/mail (hand updated)
- ftp://ftp.tamu.edu/pub/mirrors/procmail/
- ftp://ftp.kfki.hu/pub/packages/mail/procmail
- ftp://giswitch.sggw.waw.pl/pub/unix/procmail
- ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.gz
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