On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:29:58AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
>
> For details, please read my original posting. Here's the situation in
> brief:
> Deliver local mail to users in such a way that they can run their
> procmail recipes. For e.g., if a user gets all the mail about cron jobs,
> he should be able to direct that into the =inbox.cron folder.
>
I found the solution! Procmail was generating the "From " envelope
header that cyrdeliver finds inacceptable! It seems if you call procmail
from exim, it runs in an explicit delivery mode (whatever that means)
and adds the "From " header to the incoming email. My solution is really
simple. I used formail to get rid of the "From " header like so:
----------------------~/.procmailrc (begin)-----------------------------
SHELL="/bin/sh"
DELIVERMAIL="/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver"
LOGFILE="$HOME/.maillog"
IMAP="$DELIVERMAIL -a andy -q -m user.andy"
LOGABSTRACT="all"
VERBOSE="on"
#Remove the "From " header if it exists! Pass on the email to the other
#filters.
:0 fw
| /usr/bin/formail -I 'From ' -b
----------------------~/.procmailrc (end)-----------------------------
Exim is configured in the following manner:
---------------------/etc/exim/exim.conf (begin)-----------------------
######################################################################
# TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION #
######################################################################
# ORDER DOES NOT MATTER #
# Only one appropriate transport is called for each delivery. #
######################################################################
# This transport is used for local delivery to user mailboxes.
local_delivery:
driver = pipe
command = /usr/sbin/cyrdeliver ${local_part}
return_path_add = true
return_output
prefix = ""
user = cyrus
# This transport is used for procmail
procmail_pipe:
driver = pipe
command = "/usr/bin/procmail"
return_path_add
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
# check_string = "From "
# escape_string = ">From "
# suffix = ""
user = $local_part
group = mail
######################################################################
# DIRECTORS CONFIGURATION #
# Specifies how local addresses are handled #
######################################################################
# ORDER DOES MATTER #
# A local address is passed to each in turn until it is accepted. #
######################################################################
# This director runs procmail for users who have a .procmailrc file
procmail:
driver = localuser
transport = procmail_pipe
require_files = ${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail
no_verify
# This director matches local user mailboxes. Since procmail does all
# delivery, it is never used.
localuser:
driver = localuser
transport = local_delivery
end
---------------------/etc/exim/exim.conf (end)-------------------------
Please keep in mind that the above two illustrations are abridged
versions.
I am surprised that nobody else has faced this problem. It's hard to
imagine that I am the only one wanting to use Cyrus IMAP and sort all
the email into their various folders using procmail. Are there more
elegant solutions out there?
-Andy
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