| Unix Procmail Administration |
| This course teaches you how to take advantage of "procmail", a Unix Mail Delivery Agent (MDA), to further filter and process mail arriving at your mail server. |
| Procmail is a popular MDA (Mail Delivery Agent) used in conjunction with Sendmail. Procmail allows you to utilize system wide filtering and/or individual filtering with a redirection of the mail to special mailboxes based on the content of the mail headers, body and envelope. Mail can also be reprocessed once it has arrived. Understanding how procmail fits into your strategy for mail administration is essential for being an effective and efficient mail administrator. |
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| Covered Topics: |
- Overview of procmail
- Why you should use it
- How it works
- Mail Transport Agents (MTA)
- Mail Delivery Agents (MDA)
- Mail User Agents (MUA)
- Setting up procmail
- .forward
- .procmailrc
- /etc/procmailrcs
- Simple procmail example
- Logging errors
- Setting procmail variables
- Using mail (MUA)
- Reading mail on a Unix box
- Reading alternative mailboxes
- Using formail (MPA)
- Reprocessing mail against new recipes
- testing procmail
- Recipes based on:
- procmail and regular expressions
- extended regular expressions used by procmail
- Examples of recipes
- Downloading and compiling procmail
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| Prerequisites: |
- Intro to Unix, or equivalent
- Unix Sys Admin, or equivalent
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| Audience: |
| This course is designed for administrators who are responsible for maintaining their corporate mail systems. |
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| Course Benefits: |
| This course is designed for administrators who are responsible for maintaining their corporate mail systems. |
| Materials Furnished: |
- Textbook - "The Procmail Companion" O'Reilly
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| Recommended Follow-On Course: |
- Intermediate UNIX and Shell Scripting
- Advanced Unix Network Services
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