program9

James Heslin

• Multimedia and Computer Games Development '13 at the University of Limerick

• Skynet member September 2009-present

Setting up procmail for a Skynet address

I use GMail to access my incoming Skynet mail, using POP3. For outgoing mail I use an SSL login. This allows me to send Skynet emails from the GMail app on my phone and the GMail web app. Therefore, I do not have Skynet actually forward any mail to me.

Anyway. I'll go through the steps I used to set up procmail.

Just to test that forwarding would work on my account, I'll set up a .forward file.

First I ssh in and go to my mailconfig directory:

program9@faust:~$ ssh program9@skynet.ie
program9@skynet:~$ cd /mailconfig/program9

Then I open vi and create the .forward file with the address to forward to in it:

program9@skynet:/mailconfig/program9/$ vi .forward
program9@skynet:/mailconfig/program9/$ cat .forward
otheraddress@crapmail.com

I test this a couple of times, and it works with no problems. I'm finished with .forward now, so I get rid of it:

program9@skynet:/mailconfig/program9/$ mv .forward .forward_unused

Now for procmail's control file, .procmailrc:

 program9@skynet:/mailconfig/program9/$ vi .procmailrc  I copied in these lines:

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin
MAILDIR=/var/mail/program9  
LOGFILE=/home/program9/procmail.log 
SHELL=/bin/bash
#
:0 c
!gmailaddress@gmail.com
#
:0 c:
* ^From: .*studentnumber@studentmail.ul.ie
.ULEmail/

I visited the roundcube webmail client and used Settings -> Folders to subscribe to the ULEmail folder. I sent emails from that address to program9@skynet.ie and they went to the correct folder.

For additional procmail functions I will probably draw from the resources here: http://www.panix.com/~elflord/unix/procmail.html It made for quite informative reading, including a recommendation to use the condition From.*address instead of \.*address. I will try this.