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[http://www.procmail.org Procmail] is a versatile e-mail processor that can be used to sort your incoming mail. You configure it by creating a `~/.procmailrc` file. It's described by some rather complicated manpages, so people have put together: [[http://www.procmail.org|Procmail]] is a versatile e-mail processor that can be used to sort your incoming mail. You configure it by creating a `~/.procmailrc` file. It's described by some rather complicated manpages, so people have put together:
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 * a [http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ quick start guide]
 * a [http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html cookbook]
 * a [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToFilter How to filter guide]		  * a [[http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/|quick start guide]]
 * a [[http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html|cookbook]]
 * a [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToFilter|How to filter guide]]
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Here is a sample `~/.procmailrc` file that you can use to weed out duplicate mail and throw away extra mail from [http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs ubuntu-bugs]. Here is a sample `~/.procmailrc` file that you can use to weed out duplicate mail and throw away extra mail from [[http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs|ubuntu-bugs]].

Procmail is a versatile e-mail processor that can be used to sort your incoming mail. You configure it by creating a ~/.procmailrc file. It's described by some rather complicated manpages, so people have put together:

Sample

Here is a sample ~/.procmailrc file that you can use to weed out duplicate mail and throw away extra mail from ubuntu-bugs. 

# Set to yes when debugging
VERBOSE=yes

# Default INBOX
INBOX=$MAIL

# Directory for storing procmail-related files
PMDIR=$HOME/procmail

# Uncomment the following line to get logging
#LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log

# Eliminate duplicates
:0 Wh: .msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 $PMDIR/.msgid.cache

# Only keep ubuntu-bugs mail that announces newly reported bugs.
:0
* ^TO_ubuntu-bugs@lists\.ubuntu\.com
* ^X-Launchpad-Bug:
{
  :0 B
  * ^Public bug reported:
  $INBOX
  :0
  /dev/null
}

# Add all the rest to my inbox
:0
$INBOX

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