For installation instructions see the INSTALL file.
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Procmail & formail mail processing package.
Copyright (c) 1990-1992, S.R. van den Berg, The Netherlands.

Some legal stuff:

Use this software package at your own risk.  The programmer cannot
be held liable for any incurred damages, directly or indirectly due to
the use of this software.

You are encouraged to distribute this package freely.  This package is
however not to be sold (minor transfer costs excepted) or included in
any commercially sold software package (if you want to do this anyway,
contact me (address below), and we'll work something out).

If you distribute it, please leave the package intact.	You are allowed to
take parts from this distribution and distribute these separately as long
as you retain the copyright messages.  If you redistribute any part of this
package in a modified form, be sure to mark the parts you changed.
If you have some important changes that might be useful to the rest of the
world, contact me instead.

-------------------------- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS -------------------------------

Any *NIX-alike system.

Sendmail, smail, MMDF or compatible mailers (in effect any mailer that can
process RFC-822 compliant mails).

The most important system calls that need to be supported (among others):
dup(),wait(),getpwent(),fork(),pipe()

For a more complete list of all library references see "includes.h"

------------------------------ DESCRIPTION -----------------------------------

The procmail mail processing program. (v2.61 1991/01/31)

Can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort your incoming mail
into separate folders/files (real convenient when subscribing to one or more
mailing lists or for prioritising your mail), preprocess your mail, start
any programs upon mail arrival (e.g. to generate different chimes on your
workstation for different types of mail) or selectively forward certain
incoming mail automatically to someone.

The accompanying formail program enables you to generate autoreplies, split up
digests/mailboxes into the original messages, do some very simple
header-munging/extraction, or force mail into mail-format (with leading From
line).

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I made the utmost effort to make procmail as robust as any program can be
(every conceivable system error is caught *and* handled).

Procmail was designed to deliver the mail under the worst conditions
(file system full, out of swap space, process table full, file table full,
missing support files, unavailable executables; it all doesn't matter).
Should (in the unlikely event) procmail be unable to deliver your mail
somewhere, the mail will bounce back to the sender or reenter the mailqueue
(your choice).

For a more extensive list of features see the FEATURES file.

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However, as with any program, bugs cannot be completely ruled out.
I tested the program extensively, and believe it should be relatively
bug free (no known bug at the time).  Should, however, anyone find any
bugs (highly unlikely :-), I would be pleased (well, sort of :-) to hear
about it.  Please send me the patches or bug report.
I'll look at them and will try to fix it in a future release.
(BTW, if you should find any spelling or grammar errors in these files,
it's not priority one, but if you were sending me mail anyway, don't hesitate
to point them out to me; I like correct English just as much as you do).

Please note that this program essentially is supposed to be static, that
means no extra features (honouring the VNIX spirit) are supposed to be
added (though any useful suggestions will be appreciated and evaluated if
time permits).

Cheers,
       Stephen R. van den Berg	at RWTH-Aachen, Germany.

Internet E-mail:		berg@messua.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
				berg@physik.tu-muenchen.de

Or:	P.O.Box 21074
	6369 ZG Simpelveld
	The Netherlands

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A recent version can be picked up at various comp.sources.misc archives.
The latest version can be obtained directly from the ftp-archive at:

	amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (137.226.112.31)

	as compressed tar file:		pub/unix/procmail.tar.Z		<100KB
	or in compressed shar format:	pub/unix/procmail.0?.Z
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