Unix Utilities

---

Please check out the new eMailman® discussion forums available via web browser or newsreader

---

Books:

• Programming Linux Email Services by Jay Link

Utilities:

• Barrendero (freshmeat) "is a program designed to keep free space in the mail spool directory by deleting messages older than a certain age from the mail files. It can warn users of the pending deletion ahead of time, as well as provide a report of the deleted messages."
• Sven Guckes' Filter info
• Forward for easy forwarding
• LiSA by LiquidInformation announces in a pleasant voice when e-mail arrives and who it is from. For Linux.
• NAMG to download usa.net mail via web but read in your pop client.
• Procmail (powerful filtering, autoreplies, and more)
  • Procmail Documentation Project
  • Procmail links and Procmail FAQ
  • Procmail tutorial
  • Sven Guckes' Procmail info
  • Getting Started With Procmail by Catherine A. Hampton
  • The Spam Bouncer by Catherine A. Hampton " is a set of procmail recipes, or instructions, which search the headers and text of your incoming email to see if it meets one or more of [various] conditions... The SpamBouncer sorts suspected spam into two categories -- mail from known spam sources which is definitely spam, and other mail which is probably spam, but might also be legitimate. It then tags this email with appropriate headers giving the spam classification, and responds according to the parameters you have set."
  • Cameron Laird's personal notes on procmail
  • Timo's Procmail tips and recipes
  • Procmail mini-tutorial
  • Configuring procmail with The Dotfile Generator
• RandomSig
• Sift-Mail for powerful filtering.
• Taurus is a Linux utility to autoreply to messages.
• Vacation for easy autoreplies

Tools:

• Postie by Infradig is a command line mailing tool. "The swiss-army-knife of command-line mailers! Send and receive mail form the command-line or execute from within programs. Supports SMTP, ESMTP, POP3, IMAP4, HTTP protocols and is portable between Windows and Unix. Implements HTML mail and MHTML mail (embedded objects)."

Copyright © eMailman, LLC 1998-2006. Emailman ® is a registered mark of eMailman, LLC. The eMailman character, NewsReaders.com character, "NewsReaders.com", "Emailman always delivers", "electronic superhero", "eMailOrder", the backwards "@" sign, "@ backwards", "turning your e-mail around" and "Read. Discuss. View. Think." are trademarks of eMailman, LLC. All other marks belong to their respective owners.