Note:
If mail to your account is directly forwarded to another machine, then a filter program must be run on that system. You will need to contact the mail administrator at the mail destination site to find out the appropriate mail filtering commands at that site. If you don't know on which machine you actually receive mail, please click here.

The .procmailrc File
You must create the file .procmailrc in your home directory (on the machine on which your account receives email) in order to run procmail. .procmailrc is a configuration file which tells procmail what to do, and is read each time your account receives a message.

A simple .procmailrc file might look like this:

	
	#
	# mail list named "xyz"
	#
	# assumes my mail root location is a subdir of my home 
	# dir called "imap-mail/"  It actually could be just 
	# about anything.  Change to whatever you use.
	#
	:0
	*^To.*xyz*
	$HOME/imap-mail/xyz
	#
	:0
	*^Sender:.*xyz*
	$HOME/imap-mail/xyz
	

This page briefly describes a very simple use of the unix procmail utility. It is in fact a much more powerful program than may be implied here. For more information, see

	% man procmail

	% man procmailex