I am trying to configure sendmail to process all e-mails through
procmail and then also deliver the e-mail as appropriate. I am
using procmail because I need all e-mails with "page" or "beep"
in the subject to be sent to a user via alpha pager.
Pardon my intrusion, but this is a terrible plan. I have a "chatty
pager", and it would be terrible to get a page just because someone sent
me an email with the word "page" or "beep" in it. What about mail like this:
Subject: On what page will I find your comments?
Subject: The audio-mixer beep sound is too loud
Subject: Great book! Suspense until the last page!
Our system uses parallel aliases where the suffix "_p" is added, and a
special system name is used to indicate that email to the user's pager
is desired.
Besides, email for a pager must be composed specially (usually briefly);
a lengthly prosaic email will not fit most chatty pagers.
Apparently, you can't have sendmail send the same message to multiple
mail delivery agents. Is this correct?
Yes. If you wish to do this correctly, you must use an alias, or a
procmail recipe.
Either way, is there a way to configure sendmail to deliver one
message to multiple mail delivery agents, i.e. procmail AND SMTP? Has
anybody else done this? Can anyone direct me to any net resources on
procmail?
Of course:
On system "relay":
user: user_mail, user_pager
user_mail: user(_at_)mailer(_dot_)company(_dot_)com
user_pager: user(_at_)pager(_dot_)company(_dot_)com
Put the user's mail drops on "mailer", and put the pager software on
"pager".
But, I wish to emphasize that it is much better to use another alias for
each user's pager:
user: user(_at_)mailer(_dot_)company(_dot_)com
user+p: user+p(_at_)pager(_dot_)company(_dot_)com