Reason #1 to like Debian

I just rebuilt my mail server and I originally built it without server-side email sorting. Filtering on the client side is fine if you’re pulling email to one PC. Outlook will do it perfectly. It kinda blows when I’m in the middle of nowhere and my Nokia e61 can only get a 14k GPRS connection and have to wade through all my mailing list chatter. Server side filtering is the way to go and Procmail is the tool for the job…

Installing it on Debian is a 2 liner if you read this page. “apt-get install procmail” and adding “mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -a “$EXTENSION” DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir” to the postfix config file and it’s done! Now all I have to do is dump my old procmail configs back in and I’m in business.