RHPCS Mail Cleaner

by Angela Di Nello — published 2021/03/25 14:42:02 GMT-4, last modified 2021-06-03T13:30:56-04:00

To enable RHPCS MAIL CLEANER, include the following line in the file ~/.procmailrcon the email server mbx.mcmaster.ca

INCLUDERC=$RHPCS_MAIL_CLEANER/procmailrc-clean

This will enable the following:

1. remove duplicated mail
2. send backscatter bounce messages to a folder called
   rhpcs-mail-cleaner/bounce
3. send spam to a folder called rhpcs-mail-cleaner/spam within your ~/Maildir
4. send vacation auto-reply if all the following three are true:
    - directory $HOME/.vacation exist
    - file $HOME/.vacation/message exist
    - file $HOME/.vacation/on exist

Spam and bounced mails will be archived daily to ~/.rhpcs/mail-cleaner/archive if you want to change the archive frequency, you can set

mail-cleaner-archive-frequency:weekly

or

mail-cleaner-archive-frequency:monthly

in your ~/.rhpcsrc file.