This course teaches you how to take advantage of "procmail", a Unix Mail Delivery Agent (MDA), to further filter and process mail arriving at your mailserver. Procmail is a popular MDA used in conjunction with Sendmail. Procmail allows you to utilize system wide filtering and/or individual filtering with a redirection of the mail to special mailboxes based on the content of the mail headers, body and envelope. Mail can also be reprocessed once it has arrived. Understanding how procmail fits into your strategy for mail administration is essential for being an effective and efficient mail administrator.
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Class Agenda:
- Overview of procmail
- Why you should use it
- How it works
- Mail Transport Agents (MTA)
- Mail Delivery Agents (MDA)
- Mail User Agents (MUA)
- Setting up procmail
- .forward
- .procmailrc
- /etc/procmailrcs
- Simple procmail example
- Logging errors
- Setting procmail variables
- Using mail (MUA)
- Reading mail on a Unix box
- Reading alternative mailboxes
- Using formail (MPA)
- Reprocessing mail against new recipes
- testing procmail
- Recipes based on:
- procmail and regular expressions
- extended regular expressions used by procmail
- Examples of recipes
- Downloading and compiling procmail
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Prerequisites:
- Intro to UNIX, or equivalent
- Unix Sys Admin, or equivalent
Audience:
This course is designed for administrators who are responsible for maintaining their corporate mail systems.
Course Benefits:
Student will be able to implement and maintain a corporate mailing system based on the sendmail facility.
Materials Furnished:
- Textbook - "The Procmail Companion" O'Reilly
Recommended Follow-On Course:
- Intermediate UNIX and Shell Scripting
- Advanced Unix Network Services
Course Length: Two Days
List Price: $990.00 |
