revision 1.358
date: 2001/04/09 09:59:17;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +26 -5
Updates on Maildir and MBX folder formats from Ian McNish (thanks!)
revision 1.357
date: 2000/11/20 12:03:03;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +34 -15
Corrections to smrsh question as per suggestion by Per Hedeland (based on a discussion in comp.mail.sendmail)
revision 1.356
date: 2000/11/17 20:53:26;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +24 -20
Promote Sendmail FAQ's answer for how to put in X-Envelope-To as the preferred solution for the virtual domain problem (maybe I didn't completely grok this solution before :-) and rework the section around that slightly to adapt
revision 1.353
date: 2000/11/16 21:50:48;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +75 -6
A small write-up of when and how to not use Procmail for spam filtering
revision 1.351
date: 2000/07/04 13:52:36;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -1
New mirror at http://www.linuxguru.com/docs/faq/procmail/
revision 1.349
date: 2000/06/08 04:52:27;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +10 -2
Adam Megacz' page about virtual domain routing with Procmail; point out that the Fetchmail FAQ's tip for adding Delivered-To: will not always work, and why
revision 1.348
date: 2000/02/21 11:30:18;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Moongroup mirror moved slightly
revision 1.347
date: 2000/02/10 11:29:52;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +8 -1
Details about the various mailing lists are available from a separate page (finally updated with information about -announce and -d -- thanks to Stan for noticing)
revision 1.346
date: 2000/02/10 11:17:27;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +9 -1
"Service unavailable" is a symptom of the stricter permissions in the newer versions of Procmail. (Probably there should be a list of all the usual Sendmail errors somewhere in this document.)
revision 1.342
date: 2000/01/16 16:48:59;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +45 -1
Backup example from procmailex: what to do when it doesn't work, and how to use a file instead of a directory (just one out of many ideas)
revision 1.341
date: 1999/11/25 13:16:37;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +10 -7
Recommend sticking to 3.13.1 for now; 3.14.1 should be out shortly
revision 1.340
date: 1999/11/23 09:40:09;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +13 -7
Procmail 3.14 is out -- update references to version information accordingly
revision 1.339
date: 1999/11/21 17:30:48;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -29
Rhett Jones' lists appear to be very dead. Updated the FAQ reminder text: Add pointers to on-line archive (thanks to S Toms for the suggestion!), procmail.org, and Sean's Unsubscribe FAQ for the Patient (also a pointer in the FAQ itself)
revision 1.335
date: 1999/11/05 05:54:09;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +55 -23
Additional emphasis that this is not a quick start for newbies, with pointers to various tutorials; also cleaned up the small links collection near the end (skip the link to the "best of" archive -- Jari's tips page covers most of that anyway; include a link to Infinite Ink's Quick Start)
revision 1.334
date: 1999/10/05 06:00:16;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +54 -7
Lots of useful suggestions from Timo Salmi, especially in the newbie sections (thanks!)
revision 1.333
date: 1999/10/05 04:50:24;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +97 -2
"Why shouldn't I use the * wildcard?". Also, thanks to Timo Salmi for his comments -- I'll be working on changing those things ... :-)
revision 1.332
date: 1999/09/14 01:13:19;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +17 -4
Clarifications on Emacs spool files
revision 1.331
date: 1999/09/13 23:22:22;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -16
Mirrors generally mirror www.procmail.org now; remove old disclaimer about mirrors
revision 1.329
date: 1999/09/06 16:59:32;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +33 -1
What are spool files?
revision 1.328
date: 1999/09/04 14:51:08;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +12 -1
David's amplifications to .* uselessness comments -- this +can+ serve a useful purpose at times
revision 1.327
date: 1999/09/04 09:07:05;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +21 -47
Most explicit references to 3.11pre7 and 3.12 now updated for 3.13.1 but still not done an exhaustive check. But the bugs section in particular should now be reasonably up to date, and the recommendations for what version to use.
revision 1.324
date: 1999/08/22 13:38:33;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
In the "over-simplified .forward", use procmail -f- and not -f -- thanks to Nancy for noticing, and David for the correction!
revision 1.323
date: 1999/08/22 12:27:56;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -4
Don't do formail -ns unless you know what you are doing. Thanks to Breen Mullins for finding out :-)
revision 1.322
date: 1999/08/08 15:39:24;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +28 -1
Getting Procmail to cooperate with Netscape -- some pointers to information I've been meaning to put in for a long time (thanks to Mike de Laine and Peter B. West, and also Paul. Ste. Marie and Bob Poortinga)
revision 1.321
date: 1999/08/08 15:20:00;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +46 -17
A bit on using .forward under other MTAs than Sendmail
revision 1.320
date: 1999/08/08 14:48:21;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +8 -1
Fetchmail FAQ has a Sendmail rule for adding Delivered-To: (has to be added to the upstream's sendmail.cf, obviously)
revision 1.319
date: 1999/08/07 01:42:26;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -7
Removed dcs.ed.ac.uk mirror for the time being; hasn't been updated for ages
revision 1.318
date: 1999/08/06 14:03:09;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -1
Finally managed to fix the bug which has been producing empty change histories in the announcement that gets posted to the mailing list periodically. Sorry for the inconvenience, I thought I had it sorted out twice before but now I'm fairly confident I've fixed it. (Famous last words.) Pointer to Procmail debugging page in conjunction with "trying to get procmail to run"
revision 1.317
date: 1999/08/06 12:52:35;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +15 -1
Rant about how many providers still don't "get" mail handling for virtual hosting Updated list of Procmail mirror sites with list from www.procmail.org (long overdue, sorry)
revision 1.316
date: 1999/07/16 02:03:49;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -2
if envelope information is available, fetchmail can use it
revision 1.315
date: 1999/07/16 01:54:48;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +41 -3
More RTFM topics: How to save to many places
revision 1.314
date: 1999/07/09 09:54:49;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Augh, parentheses wrong in "9 to 5" example recipe
revision 1.312
date: 1999/07/09 09:32:55;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +12 -12
Ran a psell cheker (better late than never)
revision 1.311
date: 1999/07/09 08:53:41;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +8 -2
Added pointer to Sendmail FAQ's stuff on virtual hosting
revision 1.309
date: 1999/07/02 07:47:07;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +16 -6
More newbie stuff: Amended "how do I forward a copy" with "how do I forward without leaving a copy" (double duh)
revision 1.307
date: 1999/07/02 06:07:18;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +27 -1
Newbie question: Where are files created / stored?
revision 1.305
date: 1999/06/23 07:38:56;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +68 -1
How do I do stuff depending on the time of day (also including how to save to a folder with today's date in its name). Thanks to folks on the mailing list, especially David for his numerous example recipes over the years.
revision 1.303
date: 1999/06/23 07:16:58;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +19 -2
Newbiie tip: Make sure you understand "deliveredness"
revision 1.302
date: 1999/06/23 07:09:07;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +27 -1
In the log, when you get procmail: Skipped "whatever", what does that mean?
revision 1.301
date: 1999/06/19 18:13:02;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -6
Usage of "regex" vs. "regexp" was not consistent; standardize on "regex" (for pronounceability reasons, as per Friedl; q.v.)
revision 1.300
date: 1999/06/19 18:08:03;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +8 -2
Add pointer to Red Hat quirk from smrsh problem, too (as per suggestion on list) ... The group-writable (Red Hat) problem isn't really a bug in Procmail so it shouldn't properly be in the Bugs section, but what the hey
revision 1.298
date: 1999/06/15 09:49:54;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +34 -3
Red Hat GROUP_PER_USER bug; thanks to Harry Putnam and the others on the list
revision 1.292
date: 1999/05/30 14:16:12;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +25 -1
How can I forward a message but still leave a copy on the server? (Gargle)
revision 1.291
date: 1999/05/04 14:46:56;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +19 -1
virtual domains: "But I don't want to bug my upstream" (thanks to Dale again)
revision 1.289
date: 1999/04/29 12:30:25;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -1
Not being able to specify a trailing context for what \/ copies to MATCH is a quirk
revision 1.287
date: 1999/04/29 12:12:55;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +94 -21
Revisited HTML 4.0 validator -- refurbished to (nominally) comply
revision 1.286
date: 1999/04/29 09:24:23;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +18 -9
Pointer to Miquel van Smoorenburg's Sendmail patch for copying envelope recipient information into the message's headers
revision 1.285
date: 1999/04/23 07:07:48;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +21 -21
Grammar and punctuation changes as suggested by Dale Neumann (thanks!)
revision 1.284
date: 1999/04/14 15:44:41;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +17 -1
sed with newlines example: you can also put the whole sed script in a variable
revision 1.283
date: 1999/04/14 15:37:39;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +105 -9
Rephrase parts of efficiency tips and add some more (redundant braces); another pointer to the quick reference; scope of flags is not explicitly documented (do they affect the conditions or the action?)
revision 1.281
date: 1999/04/13 07:21:46;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +16 -6
Mirror sites still mirror Aachen, and thus might not have the newest version
revision 1.280
date: 1999/04/13 07:14:08;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -4
3.13.1 is out (I was on vacation last week; sorry I wasn't able to break the news earlier)
revision 1.279
date: 1999/04/01 09:03:00;  author: era;  state: Exp;  lines: +136 -40
Procmail writing to /dev/console; the mysterious $ condition modifier; c flag explanation reworded a bit (many actions per "message", not "recipe", duh); pointers to comp.unix.shell FAQs (double duh); rewrote the netiquette stuff slightly; added a few more META keywords (spam spam spam spam); fixed some HTMLisms in the text version; fixed some references to "upcoming" 3.12 (but there's still a lot to fix there)
revision 1.276
date: 1999/03/29 09:34:40;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +18 -2
kevorkian.pl: a non-solution to the eternal "I want to shoot myself in the foot" question
revision 1.275
date: 1999/03/22 10:34:43;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -1
New mirror at http://www.xs4all.nl/~sister/mirror/procmail/
revision 1.274
date: 1999/03/18 21:12:12;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +14 -7
formail: formail: cannot open
revision 1.271
date: 1999/03/11 15:11:38;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +29 -5
Bart Schaefer's notes on (not) porting to NT
revision 1.269
date: 1999/03/03 06:10:07;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +12 -8
Procmail version 3.12 is out (just a quick note for now; will have to edit the FAQ some more)
revision 1.266
date: 1999/02/25 16:39:01;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Globally changing "official" URL to http://www.iki.fi/era/procmail/ (was .../~era/...)
revision 1.265
date: 1999/02/25 15:29:05;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +130 -70
pointers to procmail.org; passing a variable to a script called from Procmail; added Gnus nnml format to Appendix A (just for completeness)
revision 1.264
date: 1999/02/08 17:29:09;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +16 -1
Pointer to Chris Lindsey's old virtdom "solution" in the archives (thanks for the pointer!)
revision 1.263
date: 1999/01/08 21:10:38;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +53 -1
Forward a modified message
revision 1.262
date: 1998/12/27 09:57:05;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -1
Added moongroup.com mirror
revision 1.261
date: 1998/12/15 11:04:02;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +61 -4
Actual bugs from Philip's todo list that I didn't have here have been merged in. (Thanks again, Philip. As usual ...) Reference: http://www.gac.edu/~guenther/procmail/todo.html
revision 1.260
date: 1998/12/11 09:21:58;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Special anniversary: The FAQ is two years old today!
revision 1.259
date: 1998/12/11 09:19:27;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +10 -1
Note that X-UIDL doesn't mean a message is spam
revision 1.248
date: 1998/11/19 12:58:27;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +67 -1
Short explanations of f and c flags. Perhaps I should just include a copy of the manual pages in the Syntax section ...
revision 1.247
date: 1998/11/19 12:33:56;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +21 -1
Gotcha: There is no way to globally modify how Procmail behaves when there's an error.
revision 1.246
date: 1998/11/18 08:01:06;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -2
Link to Philip's todo list
revision 1.245
date: 1998/11/18 07:59:29;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +30 -7
Corrections / additions by Philip Guenther (mostly what fixes to expect in what versions, but also some other good points) (Thanks!)
revision 1.244
date: 1998/11/15 21:26:02;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
The FAQ is now more than twelve times the size of version 1.1 (actually 13.1736 to be precise)
revision 1.242
date: 1998/11/15 18:06:49;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +23 -7
What we can expect to be fixed in 3.11pre8
revision 1.241
date: 1998/11/15 17:39:49;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +418 -152
URL to the current snapshot (soon to be pre8); addresses of the new procmail-dev and smartlist-dev mailing lists; how to do several actions under a common condition; rewrote BCC/virtual domain/many users one mailbox section (for the better I hope; thanks to Philip and Bart for feedback on the list)
revision 1.240
date: 1998/10/19 06:04:25;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -4
Greg Sutter's mirror moved to www.zer0.org
revision 1.239
date: 1998/10/13 14:19:03;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +23 -7
Phil's comment about changing BLKSIZ in config.h to avoid the BSD memory handling problem
revision 1.238
date: 1998/10/05 07:37:59;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -6
John Horne's comments to the new appendices (thanks!)
revision 1.231
date: 1998/09/29 06:00:13;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +131 -89
Reordered the new appendices; merged in Liviu Daia's comments to the folder format appendix (thanks!); added a link to Chris Lindsey's VERSION patch
revision 1.229
date: 1998/09/28 20:24:50;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +72 -54
Felt bold enough to finally take out "draft" from "draft FAQ". (It's not more finished now than a week or a month ago, but I don't expect it ever to be ...) Also, elaborated a little more on lock files, fixed a couple of typos, polished the prose in some places, linked in the updated formail -r page -- and included two new appendices with a little help from my friends on the list (thanks to Sean Straw, and special thanks to Bennett Todd for the maildir format description)
revision 1.227
date: 1998/09/28 10:36:10;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +26 -1
Try to explain what a "folder" is (somewhat unsuccessfully I'm afraid)
revision 1.222
date: 1998/09/28 09:19:30;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +27 -1
What happens when you try the :0 syntax on age-old versions of Procmail (this topic recently popped up on the list again)
revision 1.221
date: 1998/09/17 05:53:00;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
malloc bug under AIX too
revision 1.220
date: 1998/09/13 18:13:12;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +48 -1
About embedded ctrl-M:s in the .procmailrc file
revision 1.219
date: 1998/08/20 06:22:10;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +36 -2
Rehashed the csh gripes a little in light of recent discussions on the list. SENDMAILFLAGS goes in quoted by the ! action. Put this in the "quirks" section although I guess Dattier is rightfully calling this a bug. (archive/latest/18600, <199808191833.NAA01028@Mercury.mcs.net>) I'm going on honeymoon tomorrow morning :-) so this is all the updates for this release of the FAQ, I'm afraid. See you in September!
revision 1.218
date: 1998/07/29 13:51:22;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Your humble FAQ maintainer is getting married next week and probably won't have too much time to work on the FAQ in the near future. Sorry; see you in September!
revision 1.217
date: 1998/07/16 12:34:31;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -4
alan.stebbens@software.com
revision 1.216
date: 1998/07/15 08:33:13;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -1
AKS Procmail library link broken
revision 1.212
date: 1998/06/24 08:38:43;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +12 -2
Stan R's MATCH bug
revision 1.210
date: 1998/06/24 08:31:17;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +24 -12
If you've been unsubscribed from the mailing list, chances are Achim's archive has new messages you have missed
revision 1.206
date: 1998/06/24 08:02:41;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +63 -2
Some basic netiquette guidelines
revision 1.205
date: 1998/06/15 12:38:42;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -2
Include how to do things unconditionally in the "newbie efficiency tips" section
revision 1.204
date: 1998/06/15 08:59:01;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -2
Quirk (by David Tamkin, from the list): There is no simple way to figure out from within an .rc file what version of Procmail you're running
revision 1.203
date: 1998/06/04 05:24:21;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -2
New mirror at http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail-faq/
revision 1.201
date: 1998/05/11 18:10:12;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +40 -8
What are these fields that get written to the log?
revision 1.200
date: 1998/05/11 17:46:35;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +9 -4
Variable comparison example uses $1 instead of made-up $ARG (making it slightly more convoluted, but also slightly more real-world)
revision 1.199
date: 1998/05/11 17:36:05;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -2
Aachen list is now allegedly filtering out the most obvious spam
revision 1.194
date: 1998/05/11 08:57:01;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +25 -18
Restructured links a bit; link to Quick Reference page
revision 1.190
date: 1998/04/28 00:17:06;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +13 -2
Insert a couple of subheads to get the Minimal Digest rendering right
revision 1.187
date: 1998/04/24 08:46:02;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Effective immediately, the posting interval for the FAQ pointer is decreased to 11 days
revision 1.186
date: 1998/04/24 08:01:56;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +27 -1
Spam from the Procmail mailing list -- how and why
revision 1.185
date: 1998/04/13 10:58:59;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
This is already more than ten times the size of the original v1.0. Included a link to a copy of version 1.0 for the historically inclined.
revision 1.183
date: 1998/04/13 09:38:32;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +40 -6
Hopefully clarified the formail -D stuff a bit
revision 1.182
date: 1998/03/20 15:05:26;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +64 -5
More confusing situations -- csh and sh error messages, and the ubiquitous "yikes, where did my mail go?"
revision 1.179
date: 1998/03/19 14:38:28;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +41 -1
Another couple of confusing error messages briefly explained (+very+ briefly): "extraneous locallockfile" [sic] and "extraneous filter-flag"
revision 1.178
date: 1998/03/10 09:14:20;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +44 -1
How to do a logical OR (sigh)
revision 1.171
date: 1998/02/21 14:50:30;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +9 -1
Restructured mirror information a bit and brought up the "virtual" URL issue
revision 1.169
date: 1998/02/03 09:15:58;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +15 -2
Don't use LOCKFILE DEFAULT ORGMAIL SENDMAIL unless you know what they're for
revision 1.165
date: 1998/01/24 13:43:51;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +38 -23
Emphasize that there are several manual pages. Elaborate on problems with C shells a little bit. Small snippet about what to do about spam.
revision 1.164
date: 1998/01/18 22:42:09;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +23 -1
Jari's pm-tips in resources section
revision 1.163
date: 1998/01/18 22:05:31;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +11 -2
Don't expect things to work as advertised on versions older than 3.11pre4
revision 1.152
date: 1998/01/16 15:51:16;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +79 -40
Memory handling problems in the Bugs section
revision 1.148
date: 1998/01/15 17:16:32;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +29 -1
The other mailing list, run by Rhett 'Jonzy' Jones
revision 1.144
date: 1998/01/12 20:55:03;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +45 -1
A quick section about the From_ line
revision 1.143
date: 1997/12/15 13:27:51;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +18 -3
Pointers to more reading for newbies; formail's and lockfile's absence of a -v version number switch
revision 1.138
date: 1997/12/08 10:58:20;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +21 -1
SmartList will unsubscribe you if it gets many bounces on your address
revision 1.135
date: 1997/12/04 07:41:24;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +18 -6
Elaboration on smrsh problems
revision 1.132
date: 1997/12/03 17:28:59;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +22 -1
Getting "$@" into Procmail
revision 1.131
date: 1997/10/23 22:36:14;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -7
LOGABSTRACT bug description was off the mark.
revision 1.126
date: 1997/10/23 22:05:46;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +39 -12
Text-only version has list of mirrors in an appendix
revision 1.125
date: 1997/10/23 21:41:08;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +118 -114
Efficiency tips moved to newbie/syntax section where they make more sense
revision 1.121
date: 1997/10/23 06:48:53;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +8 -3
More about how formail -r breaks RFC822
revision 1.114
date: 1997/10/20 08:59:53;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +38 -1
More newbie stuff: forwarding to many addresses
revision 1.112
date: 1997/10/17 12:30:15;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Gave in; took out the <base> tag again
revision 1.107
date: 1997/10/13 17:38:36;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +221 -165
Lots of small edits. Hopefully made the text-only version ready for prime time. Preprocessor source is now over eight times the size of version 1.0 ...
revision 1.106
date: 1997/10/02 09:04:20;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -1
Sigh. Don't blindly copy my .forward example
revision 1.102
date: 1997/08/28 13:43:15;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +30 -29
Bobby check (see <http://www.cast.org/bobby/>)
revision 1.101
date: 1997/08/25 09:43:31;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +50 -4
Newbie introduction: How can I run an arbitrary shell or Perl script on selected incoming mail?
revision 1.100
date: 1997/08/25 08:59:38;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +31 -1
VAR ?? regex syntax (sigh)
revision 1.98
date: 1997/08/22 11:51:36;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +20 -1
The significance of 0 in :0
revision 1.96
date: 1997/08/20 09:08:13;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +44 -1
Generating your own bounce messages
revision 1.95
date: 1997/08/19 08:14:36;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +32 -13
Various minor tweaks, and a paragraph about why killing all MIME is not too smart
revision 1.94
date: 1997/08/19 06:54:08;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +15 -5
Implemented David Tamkin's suggestions (thanks!); $FROM includes caret at its beginning, non-sendmail MTA:s are likely to ignore EXITCODE, and locking /dev/null should be harmless in newer versions. Just checked: The FAQ is now about seven times the size of version 1.0
revision 1.89
date: 1997/08/18 09:57:20;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +13 -1
How formail -rtzxTo: is not required for many things (thanks to Philip Guenther, again, again)
revision 1.87
date: 1997/08/17 20:21:31;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +38 -1
biff/comsat question (thanks to Phil, once again)
revision 1.86
date: 1997/08/12 09:17:45;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -2
Clarification about egrep compatibility
revision 1.85
date: 1997/08/09 11:17:31;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +18 -11
formail argument passing order is a "gotcha" (mentioned by David Tamkin on the list)
revision 1.84
date: 1997/08/06 13:23:17;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +33 -20
FROM "macro" was slightly broken and would wrap in the text-only rendering. Clarified and rehashed some passages slightly (notably a new paragraph on random exit codes) and fixed a couple of botches in the markup. More Sendmailisms should probably be pointed out.
revision 1.83
date: 1997/08/04 16:12:33;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -1
More <base> bugs, thanks to Michael Stone for troubleshooting ... perhaps I should just give up and take out the base tag?
revision 1.82
date: 1997/07/29 06:04:04;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -4
Line-continuation backslash comments tuned as per Rik Kabel's suggestion (thanks)
revision 1.81
date: 1997/07/12 21:55:42;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +53 -5
"Rescued" truncated data and the :i flag
revision 1.80
date: 1997/07/11 22:30:45;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +189 -95
Hopefully fixed most of what needs to be fixed for the standalone text-only version. Can no longer justify calling this the "Mini" FAQ. It's pretty big. Various minor edits ...
revision 1.76
date: 1997/07/08 17:04:12;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +32 -2
There is no ^FROM macro
revision 1.72
date: 1997/07/07 07:44:35;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +58 -7
More common gotchas: line-continuation backslash should always have a space in front of it; formail -I and -A don't imply -X
revision 1.71
date: 1997/07/05 10:43:19;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +150 -10
Added note about Netscape incompatibility with <base> tag Added Known bugs section (with "common gotchas" and "funny quirks" ... not really sure what the difference between them is :-)
revision 1.70
date: 1997/06/29 18:53:11;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +57 -7
formail -rtzxTo: is the canonical way to get user@host out of a From: address
revision 1.69
date: 1997/06/27 15:59:19;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +39 -1
EXITCODE codes are in /usr/include/sysexits.h
revision 1.60
date: 1997/06/25 07:43:10;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +123 -67
Rehashed "advanced" as a general "how do i" section
revision 1.59
date: 1997/06/12 05:20:31;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +35 -6
formail failing when checking for duplicates
revision 1.54
date: 1997/05/04 16:35:50;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +16 -1
Link to newbie links on links page (links to links to links)
revision 1.52
date: 1997/04/28 08:08:26;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +9 -1
Link to links page
revision 1.46
date: 1997/04/22 09:48:10;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +29 -2
Received: lines for virtual domain stuff; pointer to Sendmail FAQ
revision 1.38
date: 1997/04/01 21:45:25;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +28 -2
BCC header explained
revision 1.32
date: 1997/03/14 12:02:47;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +88 -6
Ideas for when Procmail doesn't seem to want to run at all
revision 1.31
date: 1997/03/13 15:28:19;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +102 -7
checked out the comp.sources.misc pointer; TOC for Stephen's FAQ; how to split with formail -ns; pointer to Achim Bohnet's list archive
revision 1.25
date: 1997/03/04 16:56:00;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +130 -33
version information, mailing list address; newbie traps to avoid
revision 1.21
date: 1997/03/03 17:51:32;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +18 -4
Locally produced HTML version of Stephen's original FAQ
revision 1.15
date: 1997/03/03 14:26:48;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +160 -72
Rephrased and reformatted many examples; rehash of newbie section; experiments.rc example recipe file; more explanations about transport vs. delivery
revision 1.14
date: 1997/03/03 12:49:08;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +52 -18
Various elaborations. Clueful pointer to UUCP. Links from Contents directly to very frequently asked questions.
revision 1.13
date: 1997/03/01 10:23:38;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +65 -3
More verbiage about lockfile problems. Deserve their own FAQ
revision 1.12
date: 1997/01/29 09:22:58;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +41 -13
URL published on mailing list; lots of tweaks before that
revision 1.7
date: 1996/12/17 10:33:19;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +7 -2
Guenther's Sendmail tweak
revision 1.3
date: 1996/12/12 12:16:22;  author: reriksso;  state: Exp;  lines: +66 -1
Virtual domain and MTA vs. MDA