procmail(1)



PROCMAIL(1)                 General Commands Manual                PROCMAIL(1)

NAME
       procmail - autonomous mail processor

SYNOPSIS
       procmail [-ptoY] [-f fromwhom]
            [parameter=value | rcfile] ...
       procmail [-toY] [-f fromwhom] [-a argument] ...
            -d recipient ...
       procmail [-ptY] -m [parameter=value] ...  rcfile
            [argument] ...
       procmail -v

DESCRIPTION
       For a quick start, see NOTES at the end.

       Procmail  should be invoked automatically over the .forward file mecha-
       nism as soon as mail arrives.  Alternatively, when installed by a  sys-
       tem  administrator,  it  can  be invoked from within the mailer immedi-
       ately.  When invoked, it first sets some environment variables  to  de-
       fault values, reads the mail message from stdin until an EOF, separates
       the body from the header, and then, if no command  line  arguments  are
       present, it starts to look for a file named $HOME/.procmailrc.  Accord-
       ing to the processing recipes in this file, the mail message that  just
       arrived  gets  distributed into the right folder (and more).  If no rc-
       file is found, or processing of the rcfile falls off the end,  procmail
       will store the mail in the default system mailbox.

       If  no rcfiles and no -p have been specified on the command line, proc-
       mail will, prior to reading $HOME/.procmailrc, interpret commands  from
       /etc/procmailrc  (if  present).   Care  must  be  taken  when  creating
       /etc/procmailrc, because, if circumstances permit, it will be  executed
       with  root  privileges  (contrary  to  the  $HOME/.procmailrc  file  of
       course).

       If running suid root or with root privileges, procmail will be able  to
       perform  as a functionally enhanced, backwards compatible mail delivery
       agent.

       Procmail can also be used as a general purpose mail filter, i.e.,  pro-
       visions  have  been  made to enable procmail to be invoked in a special
       sendmail rule.

       The rcfile format is described in detail in the procmailrc(5) man page.

       The weighted scoring technique is described  in  detail  in  the  proc-
       mailsc(5) man page.

       Examples  for  rcfile recipes can be looked up in the procmailex(5) man
       page.

   Signals
       TERMINATE   Terminate prematurely and requeue the mail.

       HANGUP      Terminate prematurely and bounce the mail.

       INTERRUPT   Terminate prematurely and bounce the mail.

       QUIT        Terminate prematurely and silently lose the mail.

       ALARM       Force a timeout (see TIMEOUT).

       USR1        Equivalent to a VERBOSE=off.

       USR2        Equivalent to a VERBOSE=on.

OPTIONS
       -v   Procmail will print its version number, display its  compile  time
            configuration and exit.

       -p   Preserve  any old environment.  Normally procmail clears the envi-
            ronment upon startup, except for the value of TZ.  However, in any
            case: any default values will override any preexisting environment
            variables, i.e., procmail will not pay any attention to any prede-
            fined  environment  variables, it will happily overwrite them with
            its own defaults.  For the  list  of  environment  variables  that
            procmail  will  preset see the procmailrc(5) man page.  If both -p
            and -m are specified, the list  of  preset  environment  variables
            shrinks to just: LOGNAME, HOME, SHELL, ORGMAIL and MAILDIR.

       -t   Make  procmail  fail  softly, i.e., if procmail cannot deliver the
            mail to any of the  destinations  you  gave,  the  mail  will  not
            bounce,  but  will  return to the mailqueue.  Another delivery-at-
            tempt will be made at some time in the future.

       -f fromwhom
            Causes procmail to  regenerate  the  leading  `From  '  line  with
            fromwhom  as the sender (instead of -f one could use the alternate
            and obsolete -r).  If fromwhom consists merely of  a  single  `-',
            then  procmail  will only update the timestamp on the `From ' line
            (if present, if not, it will generate a new one).

       -o   Instead of allowing anyone to generate `From ' lines, simply over-
            ride the fakes.

       -Y   Assume  traditional  Berkeley  mailbox format, ignore any Content-
            Length: fields.

       -a argument
            This will set $1 to be equal to argument.  Each succeeding -a  ar-
            gument will set the next number variable ($2, $3, etc).  It can be
            used to pass meta information along to procmail.   This  is  typi-
            cally  done by passing along the $@x information from the sendmail
            mailer rule.

       -d recipient ...
            This turns on explicit delivery mode, delivery will be to the  lo-
            cal user recipient.  This, of course, only is possible if procmail
            has root privileges (or if procmail is already  running  with  the
            recipient's  euid and egid).  Procmail will setuid to the intended
            recipients and delivers the mail as if it were invoked by the  re-
            cipient  with  no arguments (i.e., if no rcfile is found, delivery
            is like ordinary mail).  This option is incompatible with -p.

       -m   Turns procmail into a general purpose mail filter.  In  this  mode
            one  rcfile  must be specified on the command line.  After the rc-
            file, procmail will accept an unlimited number of  arguments.   If
            the  rcfile  is  an  absolute path starting with /etc/procmailrcs/
            without backward references (i.e. the parent directory  cannot  be
            mentioned)  procmail  will,  only  if  no  security violations are
            found, take on the identity of the owner of the  rcfile  (or  sym-
            bolic  link).   For  some advanced usage of this option you should
            look in the EXAMPLES section below.

ARGUMENTS
       Any arguments containing an '=' are considered to be environment  vari-
       able  assignments,  they will all be evaluated after the default values
       have been assigned and before the first rcfile is opened.

       Any other arguments are presumed to be rcfile paths  (either  absolute,
       or if they start with `./' relative to the current directory; any other
       relative path is relative to $HOME,  unless  the  -m  option  has  been
       given, in which case all relative paths are relative to the current di-
       rectory); procmail will start with the first one it finds on  the  com-
       mand  line.   The  following  ones will only be parsed if the preceding
       ones have a not matching HOST-directive entry, or in case  they  should
       not exist.

       If  no  rcfiles  are specified, it looks for $HOME/.procmailrc.  If not
       even that can be found, processing will continue according to  the  de-
       fault  settings  of the environment variables and the ones specified on
       the command line.

EXAMPLES
       Examples for rcfile recipes can be looked up in the  procmailex(5)  man
       page.  A small sample rcfile can be found in the NOTES section below.

       Skip the rest of this EXAMPLES section unless you are a system adminis-
       trator who is vaguely familiar with sendmail.cf syntax.

       The -m option is typically used when procmail is called from  within  a
       rule  in  the  sendmail.cf  file.  In order to be able to do this it is
       convenient to create an extra `procmail'  mailer  in  your  sendmail.cf
       file  (in  addition  to the perhaps already present `local' mailer that
       starts up procmail).  To create such a `procmail'  mailer  I'd  suggest
       something like:

              Mprocmail, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=mSDFMhun, S=11, R=21,
                      A=procmail -m $h $g $u

       This  enables you to use rules like the following (most likely in rule-
       set 0) to filter mail through the  procmail  mailer  (please  note  the
       leading  tab  to  continue  the  rule, and the tab to separate the com-
       ments):

              R$*<@some.where>$*
                      $#procmail $@/etc/procmailrcs/some.rc $:$1@some.where.procmail$2
              R$*<@$*.procmail>$*
                      $1<@$2>$3       Already filtered, map back

       And /etc/procmailrcs/some.rc could be as simple as:

              SENDER = "<$1>"                 # fix for empty sender addresses
              SHIFT = 1                       # remove it from $@

              :0                              # sink all junk mail
              * ^Subject:.*junk
              /dev/null

              :0 w                            # pass along all other mail
              ! -oi -f "$SENDER" "$@"

       Do watch out when sending mail from within the /etc/procmailrcs/some.rc
       file,  if  you send mail to addresses which match the first rule again,
       you could be creating an endless mail loop.

FILES
       /etc/passwd            to set the recipient's LOGNAME, HOME  and  SHELL
                              variable defaults

       /var/mail/$LOGNAME     system  mailbox; both the system mailbox and the
                              immediate directory it is in will be created ev-
                              ery  time  procmail starts and either one is not
                              present

       /etc/procmailrc        initial global rcfile

       /etc/procmailrcs/      special privileges path for rcfiles

       $HOME/.procmailrc      default rcfile

       /var/mail/$LOGNAME.lock
                              lockfile for the system mailbox  (not  automati-
                              cally  used  by procmail, unless $DEFAULT equals
                              /var/mail/$LOGNAME and procmail is delivering to
                              $DEFAULT)

       /usr/sbin/sendmail     default mail forwarder

       _????`hostname`        temporary  `unique' zero-length files created by
                              procmail

SEE ALSO
       procmailrc(5), procmailsc(5), procmailex(5), sh(1), csh(1), mail(1),
       mailx(1), uucp(1), aliases(5), sendmail(8), egrep(1), grep(1), biff(1),
       comsat(8), lockfile(1), formail(1), cron(1)

DIAGNOSTICS
       Autoforwarding mailbox found
                              The system mailbox had its suid or sgid bit set,
                              procmail terminates with EX_NOUSER assuming that
                              this mailbox must not be delivered to.

       Bad substitution of "x"
                              Not a valid environment variable name specified.

       Closing brace unexpected
                              There was no corresponding opening brace  (nest-
                              ing block).

       Conflicting options    Not all option combinations are useful

       Conflicting x suppressed
                              Flag x is not compatible with some other flag on
                              this recipe.

       Couldn't create "x"    The  system  mailbox  was  missing   and   could
                              not/will not be created.

       Couldn't create maildir part "x"
                              The  maildir  folder  "x" is missing one or more
                              required subdirectories and procmail  could  not
                              create them.

       Couldn't create or rename temp file "x"
                              An  error occurred in the mechanics of  deliver-
                              ing to the directory folder "x".

       Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from "x"
                              There were no `>>' redirectors to be found,  us-
                              ing simply `$LOCKEXT' as locallockfile.

       Couldn't read "x"      Procmail  was unable to open an rcfile or it was
                              not a regular file, or procmail couldn't open an
                              MH directory to find the highest numbered file.

       Couldn't unlock "x"    Lockfile  was  already gone, or write permission
                              to the directory where the lockfile is has  been
                              denied.

       Deadlock attempted on "x"
                              The  locallockfile  specified  on this recipe is
                              equal to a still active $LOCKFILE.

       Denying special privileges for "x"
                              Procmail will not  take  on  the  identity  that
                              comes  with the rcfile because a security viola-
                              tion was found (e.g.  -p or variable assignments
                              on  the  command  line) or procmail had insuffi-
                              cient privileges to do so.

       Descriptor "x" was not open
                              As procmail was started, stdin, stdout or stderr
                              was  not  connected (possibly an attempt to sub-
                              vert security)

       Enforcing stricter permissions on "x"
                              The system mailbox of the recipient was found to
                              be unsecured, procmail secured it.

       Error while writing to "x"
                              Nonexistent  subdirectory,  no write permission,
                              pipe died or disk full.

       Exceeded LINEBUF       Buffer overflow detected, LINEBUF was too small,
                              PROCMAIL_OVERFLOW has been set.

       MAILDIR is not an absolute path

       MAILDIR path too long

       ORGMAIL is not an absolute path

       ORGMAIL path too long

       default rcfile is not an absolute path

       default rcfile path too long
                              The  specified  item's full path, when expanded,
                              was longer than LINEBUF or didn't start  with  a
                              file separator.

       Excessive output quenched from "x"
                              The  program  or filter "x" tried to produce too
                              much output for the current  LINEBUF,  the  rest
                              was  discarded  and  PROCMAIL_OVERFLOW  has been
                              set.

       Extraneous x ignored   The action line or other flags  on  this  recipe
                              makes flag x meaningless.

       Failed forking "x"     Process  table  is full (and NORESRETRY has been
                              exhausted).

       Failed to execute "x"  Program not in path, or not executable.

       Forced unlock denied on "x"
                              No write permission in the directory where lock-
                              file "x" resides, or more than one procmail try-
                              ing to force a lock at exactly the same time.

       Forcing lock on "x"    Lockfile "x" is going to be removed by force be-
                              cause of a timeout (see also: LOCKTIMEOUT).

       Incomplete recipe      The start of a recipe was found, but it stranded
                              in an EOF.

       Insufficient privileges
                              Procmail either needs root privileges,  or  must
                              have  the  right (e)uid and (e)gid to run in de-
                              livery mode.  The mail will bounce.

       Invalid regexp "x"     The regular expression "x" contains errors (most
                              likely some missing or extraneous parens).

       Kernel-lock failed     While trying to use the kernel-supported locking
                              calls, one of them failed (usually indicates  an
                              OS  error), procmail ignores this error and pro-
                              ceeds.

       Kernel-unlock failed   See above.

       Lock failure on "x"    Can only occur if you specify  some  real  weird
                              (and  illegal)  lockfilenames or if the lockfile
                              could not be  created  because  of  insufficient
                              permissions or nonexistent subdirectories.

       Lost "x"               Procmail  tried  to  clone  itself but could not
                              find back rcfile "x" (it either got  removed  or
                              it was a relative path and you changed directory
                              since procmail opened it last time).

       Missing action         The current recipe was found to be incomplete.

       Missing closing brace  A nesting block was started, but never finished.

       Missing name           The -f option needs an extra argument.

       Missing argument       You specified the -a option but forgot the argu-
                              ment.

       Missing rcfile         You  specified  the  -m option, procmail expects
                              the name of an rcfile as argument.

       Missing recipient      You specified the -d option or  called  procmail
                              under  a  different name, it expects one or more
                              recipients as arguments.

       No space left to finish writing "x"
                              The filesystem  containing  "x"  does  not  have
                              enough free space to permit delivery of the mes-
                              sage to the file.

       Out of memory          The system is out of swap space (and  NORESRETRY
                              has been exhausted).

       Processing continued   The unrecognised options on the command line are
                              ignored, proceeding as usual.

       Program failure (nnn) of "x"
                              Program that was started  by  procmail  returned
                              nnn instead of EXIT_SUCCESS (=0); if nnn is neg-
                              ative, then this is the signal the program  died
                              on.

       Quota exceeded while writing "x"
                              The  filesize  quota  for  the  recipient on the
                              filesystem containing "x" does not permit deliv-
                              ering the message to the file.

       Renaming bogus "x" into "x"
                              The system mailbox of the recipient was found to
                              be bogus, procmail performed evasive actions.

       Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded/failed
                              A filter returned unsuccessfully, procmail tried
                              to get back the original text.

       Skipped: "x"           Couldn't  do  anything  with  "x"  in the rcfile
                              (syntax error), ignoring it.

       Suspicious rcfile "x"  The owner of the rcfile was not the recipient or
                              root, the file was world writable, or the direc-
                              tory that contained it was  world  writable,  or
                              this  was the default rcfile ($HOME/.procmailrc)
                              and either it was group writable or the directo-
                              ry that contained it was group writable (the rc-
                              file was not used).

       Terminating prematurely whilst waiting for ...
                              Procmail received a signal while it was  waiting
                              for ...

       Timeout, terminating "x"
                              Timeout has occurred on program or filter "x".

       Timeout, was waiting for "x"
                              Timeout  has occurred on program, filter or file
                              "x".  If it was a program  or  filter,  then  it
                              didn't seem to be running anymore.

       Truncated file to former size
                              The file could not be delivered to successfully,
                              so the file was truncated to its former size.

       Truncating "x" and retrying lock
                              "x" does not seem to be a valid filename or  the
                              file is not empty.

       Unable to treat as directory "x"
                              Either  the suffix on "x" would indicate that it
                              should be an MH or maildir  folder,  or  it  was
                              listed  as  an second folder into which to link,
                              but it already exists and is not a directory.

       Unexpected EOL         Missing closing quote, or trying to escape EOF.

       Unknown user "x"       The specified recipient does not have  a  corre-
                              sponding uid.

EXTENDED DIAGNOSTICS
       Extended  diagnostics can be turned on and off through setting the VER-
       BOSE variable.

       [pid] time & date      Procmail's pid and a timestamp.  Generated when-
                              ever  procmail  logs a diagnostic and at least a
                              second has elapsed since the last timestamp.

       Acquiring kernel-lock  Procmail now tries to kernel-lock the  most  re-
                              cently opened file (descriptor).

       Assigning "x"          Environment variable assignment.

       Assuming identity of the recipient, VERBOSE=off
                              Dropping  all  privileges  (if  any), implicitly
                              turns off extended diagnostics.

       Bypassed locking "x"   The mail spool directory was not  accessible  to
                              procmail, it relied solely on kernel locks.

       Executing "x"          Starting program "x".  If it is started by proc-
                              mail directly (without an  intermediate  shell),
                              procmail  will show where it separated the argu-
                              ments by inserting commas.

       HOST mismatched "x"    This host was called "x", HOST  contained  some-
                              thing else.

       Locking "x"            Creating lockfile "x".

       Linking to "x"         Creating a hardlink between directory folders.

       Match on "x"           Condition matched.

       Matched "x"            Assigned "x" to MATCH.

       No match on "x"        Condition didn't match, recipe skipped.

       Non-zero exitcode (nnn) by "x"
                              Program that was started by procmail as a condi-
                              tion or as the action of a recipe with  the  `W'
                              flag  returned nnn instead of EXIT_SUCCESS (=0);
                              the usage indicates that this is not an entirely
                              unexpected condition.

       Notified comsat: "$LOGNAME@offset:file"
                              Sent  comsat/biff a notice that mail arrived for
                              user $LOGNAME at `offset' in `file'.

       Opening "x"            Opening file "x" for appending.

       Rcfile: "x"            Rcfile changed to "x".

       Reiterating kernel-lock
                              While attempting several locking methods, one of
                              these  failed.   Procmail  will  reiterate until
                              they all succeed in rapid succession.

       Score: added newtotal "x"
                              This condition scored `added' points, which  re-
                              sulted in a `newtotal' score.

       Unlocking "x"          Removing lockfile "x" again.

WARNINGS
       You  should create a shell script that uses lockfile(1) before invoking
       your mail shell on any mailbox file other than the system mailbox  (un-
       less of course, your mail shell uses the same lockfiles (local or glob-
       al) you specified in your rcfile).

       In the unlikely event that you absolutely need to kill procmail  before
       it  has finished, first try and use the regular kill command (i.e., not
       kill -9, see the subsection Signals for  suggestions),  otherwise  some
       lockfiles might not get removed.

       Beware  when  using  the -t option, if procmail repeatedly is unable to
       deliver the mail  (e.g.,  due  to  an  incorrect  rcfile),  the  system
       mailqueue  could fill up.  This could aggravate both the local postmas-
       ter and other users.

       The /etc/procmailrc file might be executed with root privileges, so  be
       very careful of what you put in it.  SHELL will be equal to that of the
       current recipient, so if procmail has to invoke the shell, you'd better
       set it to some safe value first.  See also: DROPPRIVS.

       Keep  in  mind that if chown(1) is permitted on files in /etc/procmail-
       rcs/, that they can be chowned to root (or anyone else) by  their  cur-
       rent  owners.   For  maximum security, make sure this directory is exe-
       cutable to root only.

       Procmail is not the proper tool for  sharing  one  mailbox  among  many
       users,  such  as when you have one POP account for all mail to your do-
       main. It can be done if you manage to configure your MTA  to  add  some
       headers  with the envelope recipient data in order to tell Procmail who
       a message is for, but this is usually not the right thing to do.   Per-
       haps  you want to investigate if your MTA offers `virtual user tables',
       or check out the `multidrop' facility of Fetchmail.

BUGS
       After removing a lockfile by force, procmail waits $SUSPEND seconds be-
       fore  creating  a  new lockfile so that another process that decides to
       remove the stale lockfile will not remove the  newly  created  lock  by
       mistake.

       Procmail  uses  the  regular  TERMINATE signal to terminate any runaway
       filter, but it does not check if the filter responds to that signal and
       it only sends it to the filter itself, not to any of the filter's chil-
       dren.

       A continued Content-Length: field is not handled correctly.

       The embedded newlines in a continued  header  should  be  skipped  when
       matching instead of being treated as a single space as they are now.

MISCELLANEOUS
       If there is an existing Content-Length: field in the header of the mail
       and the -Y option is not specified, procmail will trim the field to re-
       port the correct size.  Procmail does not change the fieldwidth.

       If  there  is no Content-Length: field or the -Y option has been speci-
       fied and procmail appends to regular mailfolders, any lines in the body
       of the message that look like postmarks are prepended with `>' (disarms
       bogus mailheaders).  The regular expression that is used to search  for
       these postmarks is:
              `\nFrom '

       If  the  destination  name  used  in  explicit  delivery mode is not in
       /etc/passwd, procmail will proceed as if explicit delivery mode was not
       in  effect.   If not in explicit delivery mode and should the uid proc-
       mail is running under, have no corresponding  /etc/passwd  entry,  then
       HOME  will  default  to /, LOGNAME will default to #uid, SHELL will de-
       fault to /bin/sh, and ORGMAIL will default to /tmp/dead.letter.

       When in explicit delivery mode, procmail will generate a leading  `From
       '  line  if  none  is present.  If one is already present procmail will
       leave it intact.  If procmail is not invoked with one of the  following
       user  or  group  ids :  root,  daemon, uucp, mail, x400, network, list,
       slist, lists or news, but still has to generate or accept a new `From '
       line,  it will generate an additional `>From ' line to help distinguish
       fake mails.

       For security reasons procmail will only use an absolute or  $HOME-rela-
       tive  rcfile  if  it  is  owned  by  the  recipient  or root, not world
       writable, and the directory it is contained in is not  world  writable.
       The  $HOME/.procmailrc  file has the additional constraint of not being
       group-writable or in a group-writable directory.

       If /var/mail/$LOGNAME is a bogus mailbox (i.e., does not belong to  the
       recipient,  is unwritable, is a symbolic link or is a hard link), proc-
       mail will upon startup try to rename it into a file starting with  `BO-
       GUS.$LOGNAME.' and ending in an inode-sequence-code.  If this turns out
       to be impossible, ORGMAIL will have no initial value,  and  hence  will
       inhibit delivery without a proper rcfile.

       If /var/mail/$LOGNAME already is a valid mailbox, but has got too loose
       permissions on it, procmail will correct  this.   To  prevent  procmail
       from doing this make sure the u+x bit is set.

       When  delivering  to  directories,  MH folders, or maildir folders, you
       don't need to use lockfiles to  prevent  several  concurrently  running
       procmail programs from messing up.

       Delivering  to MH folders is slightly more time consuming than deliver-
       ing to normal directories or mailboxes, because procmail has to  search
       for  the  next available number (instead of having the filename immedi-
       ately available).

       On general failure procmail will return EX_CANTCREAT, unless option  -t
       is specified, in which case it will return EX_TEMPFAIL.

       To  make  `egrepping' of headers more consistent, procmail concatenates
       all continued header fields; but only internally.  When delivering  the
       mail, line breaks will appear as before.

       If  procmail is called under a name not starting with `procmail' (e.g.,
       if it is linked to another name and invoked as such), it  comes  up  in
       explicit  delivery  mode,  and expects the recipients' names as command
       line arguments (as if -d had been specified).

       Comsat/biff notifications are done using udp.  They are sent  off  once
       when  procmail  generates  the regular logfile entry.  The notification
       messages have the following extended format (or as close as you can get
       when final delivery was not to a file):
              $LOGNAME@offset_of_message_in_mailbox:absolute_path_to_mailbox

       Whenever  procmail  itself  opens a file to deliver to, it consistently
       uses the following kernel locking strategies: fcntl(2).

       Procmail is NFS-resistant and eight-bit clean.

NOTES
       Calling up procmail with the -h or -? options will cause it to  display
       a command-line help and recipe flag quick-reference page.

       There exists an excellent newbie FAQ about mailfilters (and procmail in
       particular); it is maintained by Nancy McGough <nancym@ii.com> and  can
       be obtained by sending a mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the fol-
       lowing in the body:
              send usenet/news.answers/mail/filtering-faq

       If procmail is not installed globally  as  the  default  mail  delivery
       agent  (ask your system administrator), you have to make sure it is in-
       voked when your mail arrives.  In this case  your  $HOME/.forward  (be-
       ware,  it has to be world readable) file should contain the line below.
       Be sure to include the single and double quotes, and  unless  you  know
       your  site to be running smrsh (the SendMail Restricted SHell), it must
       be an absolute path.

       "|exec /usr/bin/procmail"

       Some mailers (notably exim) do not currently accept the  above  syntax.
       In such case use this instead:

       |/usr/bin/procmail

       Procmail  can  also  be invoked to postprocess an already filled system
       mailbox.  This can be useful if you  don't  want  to  or  can't  use  a
       $HOME/.forward  file (in which case the following script could periodi-
       cally be called from within cron(1),  or  whenever  you  start  reading
       mail):

              #!/bin/sh

              ORGMAIL=/var/mail/$LOGNAME

              if cd $HOME &&
               test -s $ORGMAIL &&
               lockfile -r0 -l1024 .newmail.lock 2>/dev/null
              then
                trap "rm -f .newmail.lock" 1 2 3 13 15
                umask 077
                lockfile -l1024 -ml
                cat $ORGMAIL >>.newmail &&
                 cat /dev/null >$ORGMAIL
                lockfile -mu
                formail -s procmail <.newmail &&
                 rm -f .newmail
                rm -f .newmail.lock
              fi
              exit 0

   A sample small $HOME/.procmailrc:
       PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
       MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail      #you'd better make sure it exists
       DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox   #completely optional
       LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from   #recommended

       :0:
       * ^From.*berg
       from_me

       :0
       * ^Subject:.*Flame
       /dev/null

       Other examples for rcfile recipes can be looked up in the procmailex(5)
       man page.

SOURCE
       This program is part of the procmail mail-processing-package (v3.23pre)
       available  at http://www.procmail.org/ or ftp.procmail.org in pub/proc-
       mail/.

MAILINGLIST
       There exists a mailinglist for questions relating to any program in the
       procmail package:
              <procmail-users@procmail.org>
                     for submitting questions/answers.
              <procmail-users-request@procmail.org>
                     for subscription requests.

       If  you  would  like  to  stay informed about new versions and official
       patches send a subscription request to
              procmail-announce-request@procmail.org
       (this is a readonly list).

AUTHORS
       Stephen R. van den Berg
              <srb@cuci.nl>
       Philip A. Guenther
              <guenther@sendmail.com>

BuGless                           2001/08/27                       PROCMAIL(1)

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