Procmail to delete mail from senders

procmail

I'm looking to delete all mail addressed from "root@", where the address could originate from any domain. Am I right in thinking the line below would achieve this? [using sendmail]

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* ^From.root*

/dev/null

Or if I wanted to move to a folder, will this work and automatically create the folder (imap syncable)

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* ^From.root*

ExampleFolder

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Will delete the mail :

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* ^From:.*root@.*
/dev/null

Will create the folder and move the mail to it (you still need to subscribe to the folder over IMAP)

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* ^From:.*root@.*
ExampleFolder

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Best Practical RT, sorting email into queues automatically using procmail

You might want to push the routing function onto RT instead of trying to implement it in procmail. Let the email be sent to RT, and then use something like the EmailRouting or SetOwnerAndQueueBySubject scrip examples to short the email into the appropriate queue.

From the RT Wiki ( https://rt-wiki.bestpractical.com/wiki/Main_Page ) :

EmailRouting -> https://rt-wiki.bestpractical.com/wiki/EmailRouting

SetOwnerAndQueueBySubject -> https://rt-wiki.bestpractical.com/wiki/SetOwnerAndQueueBySubject

Procmail – Preventing Addition of Return-Path

Try

# Forward the email
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* ^Return-Path:[  ]*\/[^  ].+
{ env=$MATCH }
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! ${env+-f "$env"} ${LOCALPART}@apps.domain.nl

As is customary in Procmail recipes, the whitespace inside the square brackets should consist of a space and a tab (both places where the Return-Path header is being matched. I could not write literal tabs from the mobile device I'm typing on).

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Procmail – Preventing Addition of Return-Path

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