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MAILDIR-FILTER(1)					      General Commands Manual						 MAILDIR-FILTER(1)

NAME

       maildir-filter - program to filter mail in Maildir folders.

SYNOPSIS

       maildir-filter -r <regexp> [-d ./Maildir/.folder | -b] [-D] [-p] [-i] [-V] [-n] [-H]

DESCRIPTION

       maildir-filter  is  used to filter messages in Maildir folders. It reads the message from stdin and used qmail's exit conde conventions, so
       it can work from your .qmail file.  It can be used to bounce, deliver or just send messages do /dev/null.

OPTIONS

       The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax.  A summary of options are included below.

       -r <regexp>
	      Use this regexp to match the message. It follows perl syntax.

       -D     turn on a few debug messages

       -b     bounce if matches

       -p     print messa to stdout

       -i     case insensitive match

       -V     print version and exit

       -n     negate regexp (!~ m// in perl talk)

       -H     only try to match the headers

       -k     kill the message

SEE ALSO

       dot-qmail(5)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Marcelo Bezerra <mosca@mosca.yi.org>.

																 MAILDIR-FILTER(1)

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NAME

       qmail - overview of qmail documentation

INTRODUCTION

       qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent.

       Users  who  want  to  control  incoming	messages  should read dot-qmail(5).  Available commands for the .qmail file include qbiff(1), qre-
       ceipt(1),  forward(1),  bouncesaying(1),  and  condredirect(1).	 Other	helpful  commands  include  maildirmake(1),  maildir2mbox(1),  and
       maildirwatch(1).

       System  administrators  who want to control the entire qmail system should start with qmail-control(5) and qmail-start(8).  There are three
       queue-monitoring tools: qmail-qread(8), qmail-qstat(8), and qmail-tcpto(8).  Incoming SMTP connections are handled by qmail-smtpd(8).

       qmail offers two command-line message-sending interfaces: qmail-inject(8) and mailsubj(1).  For background  information	on  Internet  mail
       messages, see addresses(5), envelopes(5), qmail-header(5), and forgeries(7).

       Miscellaneous documentation includes qmail-limits(7) and qmail-pop3d(8).

       This  documentation  describes  netqmail version 1.05 of qmail.	See http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html for other qmail-related software, and
       http://qmail.org/ for other qmail community contributions.

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