At 09:57 2003-05-15 -0600, Scott Wiersdorf did say:
One option you might consider (in your case especially) is to add an
MTA processing rule that adds an X-Recipient: header or something like
that (someone else on the list may have a stronger opinion). Your MTA
documentation will likely document some mechanism to do that.
X-Envelope-To: is what you should search for.
Beware though: if a message arrives with this header (containing who knows
what), your MTA is unlikely to add it. Also, if you receive a message
addressed to multiple local recipients, the MTA may not add it.
The bottom line is that Procmail is NOT AN MTA, and whenever someone tries
to use it as such, they discover there are a LOT of limitations, with a
variety of kludges necessary to get things to "sort of work." See 'man
procmail' and search for "MTA", where you'll find (under the WARNINGS heading):
Procmail is not the proper tool for sharing one mailbox among many
users, such as when you have one POP account for all mail to your
domain. It can be done if you manage to configure your MTA to add
some headers with the envelope recipient data in order to tell
Procmail who a message is for, but this is usually not the right
thing to do. Perhaps you want to investigate if your MTA offers
`virtual user tables', or see e.g. the `multidrop' facility of
Fetchmail.
Keep in mind that fetchmail is not part of procmail, nor is it a
development of the procmail development team - fetchmail configuration
inquiries should be directed to the appropriate forum for fetchmail.
It is ill advised to attempt to use a tool for a certain purpose when the
developers of that tool EXPLICITLY state that it isn't suited to that task.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Procmail disclaimer: <http://www.professional.org/procmail/disclaimer.html>
Please DO NOT carbon me on list replies. I'll get my copy from the list.
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