> > - The publisher may be able to provide copies of Marty's book, A Procmail > > Companion, at a reduced price for LUG members. If that's gonna happen we > > need a count of interested parties, and probably also some help in > > distributing the books at the meeting. > > Autographs will be available as desired, I suspect. > > Are sample chapters or a TOC available anywhere? I would love to have a > good reference and examples for procmail, but I need to flip through a > copy of it before I'll put money down. > > Nate Sure thing: http://www.it-minds.com/detail.asp?item=100000000015413 Unfortunately, the only sample chapter is the first, and as you know those tend to be introductory. I'm not asking for commitments at the moment, I just want a good guess of how many copies to haul around. You can certainly take time to flip through a copy at the meeting. ToC below. Andy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Foreword Preface CH1 - What Is Procmail? What is Procmail For? The Basics Of Email The History The Ingredients CH2 - Setting Up Procmail Obtaining And Installing Procmail Controlling Mail Delivery With Procmail Setting Up Procmail For Users Creating A .forward File Running Procmail Manually Running Procmail Manually To Reprocess A Mailbox Running Procmail Manually To Test Recipes Debugging Procmail Recipes CH3 - Simple Filtering of Email With Procmail Setting Up A Basic .procmailrc File Improving Efficiency It Is Never That Easy! Making Copies Multiple Conditions In A Recipe Disposing Of Mails Working With Emails By Size Nesting Blocks CH4 - More Complex Filtering More Complex Filtering Using Procmail Regular Expressions Regular Expressions Matching Beginnings and Ends Matching Individual Characters Character Classes Sequence Metacharacters Wildcard Confusion Word Boundaries Built-In Shortcuts Defining Variables Using the Head and the Body Other Recipe Flags Adding Complexity To Conditional Lines Matching A Condition In The Head Or Body Matching A Condition Against A Variable OR Conditionals and the Else Flag Backreferences - Using What You Have Already Matched Scoring The Theory Of Scoring Limits External Programs Capturing Output Into Variables Extracting Data From Mail And Filter Recipes Using External Programs In Condition Lines Where The External Programs Are To Be Found CH5 - Using Procmail to Manage Mailing Lists Announcement Mailing List Discussion List Dedicated Mailing List Software CH6 - Troubleshooting CH7 - Invoking Procmail Procmail As A Delivery Agent Procmail As A General Purpose Mail Filter Procmail As A Mail Reprocessor Invoking Formail CH8 - Macros and Environment Variables CH9 - Recipe Syntax Variables Comments Recipes CH10 - CookBook The Basics Directing Mail To Separate Mailboxes Directing A Single Mail To Multiple Mailboxes Handling Mail From Mailing Lists OR-ing Conditions Recognising Text That Can Be Split Across A Line-End Removing '[ListName]' From Subject Lines Setting The Default Delivery Location To Be A Forwarding Address Appendix A - Sample Build -- Martin McCarthy /</ PGP key available marty at ancient-scotland.co.uk \>\ http://www.ancient-scotland.co.uk /</ http://www.ehabitat.demon.co.uk