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Automatic Mail Processing
Alcor offers many ways of doing automatic mail processing, from the most simple (forwarding all of your mail to another account) and commonplace (have your mail automatically responded to while you're on vacation), to the complex (selective auto-responses for various types of mail, auto-filing, and starting other programs).
If you need only forwarding, or only vacation responses, then you can use these simple methods:
However, if you want anything at all fancy, including filtering spam (unwanted advertising), combining forwarding and vacation response with specialized processing such as auto-filing of your mail in different folders, responding to different mail messages in different ways, selective forwarding of some mail, and feeding mail to external programs, then we recommend you use procmail. We offer a quick guide to setting up procmail on your Alcor account.
We also invite you to consult the mail filtering FAQ, posted periodically in several comp.mail.* newsgroups, as well as this procmail tutorial.
One last note: MH users may be tempted to use .maildelivery and slocal. As a former user of slocal, the author strongly encourages MH users to use procmail instead of slocal for mail filtering; procmail supports MH-style folders, and can call MH programs such as rcvstore and rcvtty.
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