FOREWORD

I get over 200 pieces of email every day on my work account. I get nearly that many to my home account and to legacy accounts that bounce around the universe prior to landing in some box or other.

About half of all this is destined for /dev/null.

Procmail is my friend.

Procmail filters and sorts my stuff.

Martin McCarthy is my friend, too. For Marty (if I may) has written a book on what Procmail can do and how to use it.

If you want to know how Procmail can handle mailing lists, McCarthy tells you.

If you want to handle SPAM, McCarthy tells you how.

And if you'd like to do these things, but fear that you don't understand email or the Internet well enough, McCarthy gives you enough of an introduction so that you need not fear any more.

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