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setting up procmailrc for the first time

I have a website and email for ourcompany.com hosted by a web hosting company. They are using Linux. I was told that in order for me to have mailing list feature in our email. I need to setup procmail. I only have home folder access to that server. Can somebody help me setup procmail? procmailrc? I do not know much about setting this up. I am still new to Linux. Thank you very much.

ravenpl

please start from reading excellent manuals
man procmailrc
man procmailex

> They are using Linux. I was told that in order for me to have mailing list feature in our email. I need to setup procmail.
Procmail is not the best approach for creating mailing-lists. Usually it's .forward, but .procmailrc will do
create $HOME/.procmailrc with following content

:0 c
! first@address.com
:0 c
! second@address.com
:0 c
! second@address.com
#mail is delivered to local account as well
#NOTE: Reply-To is not set to valid reply address

toffee_natividad

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where will I create procmailrc? inside /home? How do I create a procmail? using nano? How do I create it? what command to use? do I jut type $HOME/.procmailrc inside /home? I am still new to Linux. Thanks

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ravenpl

Oh, and my favorite text editor: mcedit

toffee_natividad

ASKER

I typed what you said:

[10:45 0.06]
[owl 4] virtue > nano $HOME/virtue/.procamailrc
-bash: nano: command not found
[13:07 0.08]
[owl 5] virtue > nano $HOME/virtue/.procamailrc
-bash: nano: command not found
[13:07 0.06]
[owl 6] virtue >

ravenpl

Try other editors. Are familiar with them? mcedit is pretty easy.

toffee_natividad

ASKER

[owl 8] virtue > mcedit $HOME/virtue/.procmailrc
-bash: mcedit: command not found

ravenpl

Ask admin what text editors are available. I posted few others.

toffee_natividad

ASKER

Thanks a lot. You helped me a lot. It worked