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email_advanced [2021/03/16 17:03] – [References] hc9email_advanced [2023/08/18 19:36] (current) – added section on your mail not looking like spam peteyboy
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-===== Introductionand what you //will not// find here =====+===== Introduction ===== 
 +**  and what you //will not// find here**
  
-Here we discuss advanced topics for e-mail processing on SDF, mainly automatic processing of incoming messages with ''procmail'' and forwarding issues. As ''procmail'' is only available to ARPA members, the contents of this tutorial will be mostly useless to user members. For basic info about e-mail (addresses, reader programs, file size, etc), please read the corresponding [[http://sdf.lonestar.org/index.cgi?faq?EMAIL|FAQ]] entry - and if you still have problems with basic sending and receiving of messages via SDF, this tutorial is most probably not for you!+Here we discuss advanced topics for e-mail processing on SDF, mainly automatic processing of incoming messages with ''procmail'' and forwarding issues. As ''procmail'' is only available to ARPA members, the contents of this tutorial will be mostly useless to //user//-level members. For basic info about e-mail (addresses, reader programs, file size, etc), please read the corresponding [[http://sdf.lonestar.org/index.cgi?faq?EMAIL|FAQ]] entry and [[email_at_sdf|Accessing your SDF Email]]- and if you still have problems with basic sending and receiving of messages via SDF, this tutorial is most probably not for you!
  
 ===== Forwarding E-Mail ===== ===== Forwarding E-Mail =====
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 This completes the Procmail recipe. This completes the Procmail recipe.
  
 +===== Not Having Your Mail Look Like Spam =====
 +If you are using SDF's VPM service for your VHOST or other domain email accounts hosted here, you will want to add an SPF record so other services don't consider *your* email as spam: [[add_spf_record_for_your_vpm_mail|How to Add an SPF Record For Your VPM Mail]]
  
 ===== Use SDF SMTP Server Remotely via SSH ===== ===== Use SDF SMTP Server Remotely via SSH =====
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 if [ $SSH_PID -eq 0 ]; then if [ $SSH_PID -eq 0 ]; then
 ssh $SSH_ARGS $LIS_PORT:$TAG_HOST:$TAG_PORT $SSH_USER@$SSH_HOST \ ssh $SSH_ARGS $LIS_PORT:$TAG_HOST:$TAG_PORT $SSH_USER@$SSH_HOST \
--p$SSH_PORT &>/dev/null+-p$SSH_PORT &>/dev/null
 DATE_TIME=`date '+%y.%m.%d %T'` DATE_TIME=`date '+%y.%m.%d %T'`
 echo "$DATE_TIME SSH Tunnel restarted.">>$LOG_FILE echo "$DATE_TIME SSH Tunnel restarted.">>$LOG_FILE
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-[[http://sdf.org/?tutorials/e-mail-advanced| e-mail advanced]] - traditional link (using [[wp>Revision_Control_System|RCS]])+[[http://sdf.org/?tutorials/e-mail-advanced|e-mail advanced]] - traditional link (using [[wp>Revision_Control_System|RCS]])
  
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