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== Uses == The most common use case for procmail is to filter mail into different [[Email box|mailboxes]], based on criteria such as sender [[email address|address]], subject keywords, and/or [[electronic mailing list|mailing list]] address.<ref name="GtLIaA"/><ref name="qmailbook"/> Another use is to let procmail call an external [[Anti-spam techniques (e-mail)|spam filter program]], such as [[SpamAssassin]]. This method can allow for spam to be filtered or deleted. The procmail developers have built a [[mailing list manager]] called SmartList on top of procmail. Procmail is an early example of a mail filtering tool and language. It is a [[data-driven programming]] language, similar to earlier line-oriented languages such as [[sed]] and [[AWK]].
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