“This article shows Unix system administrators how they can
enhance their e-mail setup by installing procmail, a
general-purpose mail processing program for all brands of Unix. I
will use Linux as an example system, but what I say should apply to
to other Unixes.
“The simplest way in which procmail can be used is as a drop-in
replacement for the local mailer. This entails mail delivry as
normal, plus extra processing if a .procmailrc file is present in
the home directory of the recipient.
“You may wish to store mail in the recipient’s home directory,
rather than in the traditional /usr/spool/mail. This has some
obvious advantages:
- “Mail is subject to the user’s quota limitations. there is
often more room on the home partition(s) than on /usr/mail. - “The quota limitations also apply to /usr/spool/mail or
/usr/mail if procmail does the delivery.”