On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Professional Software Engineering wrote:
At 05:09 PM 9/12/96 -0700, Jeff Gustafson elucidated thus:
[snip: Reply-To: user5(_at_)anotherplace(_dot_)org -->
user5(_at_)anotherplace(_dot_)org(_dot_)proc]
Perhaps I've not paid close enough attention to some recent posts here, but
I can't understand WHY you'd do this. Or what it would have to do with
procmail -- this is sendmail stuff.
I can process all incoming mail through procmail. This is always
done and procmail's main job. But for outgoing mail I don't know what to
do. Some one on this list suggested putting '.proc' at the end of the
destination address. That way sendmail can have a rule for it. Do you
know of a way for sendmail to filter all messages through procmail?
The domain in the reply-to conversion more than likely doesn't exist: for
instance, if I were to reply to you at packardbell.com.proc it'd bounce,
since there is no such domain. Someone replying to a message you've
modified such will get the same sort of result.
Now, perhaps you want to put the .proc extension into the userid? THAT
might make sense if you wanted to maintain a separate uid for procmailed
inboxes. For whatever purpose you're doing this instead of just setting up
procmail on the regular mailbox...
This sort of stuff should be in the sendmail.cf file (something I don't
tinker with myself - I operate a domain on someone else's hardware).
Now, I could understand doing what you're doing if it were more of the
following:
user(_at_)hostdomain(_dot_)com --> user(_at_)virtualdomain(_dot_)com
.. which again is accomplished in sendmail.cf, AFAIK. I know this is a bit
problematic when I've got a virtual domain and many email addresses there --
mail sent from all of them gets translated to having a Return-Path header of
the one "root" domain address, as entered into the sendmail.cf. I find this
to be rather annoying really.
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Jeffrey Gustafson -- jeffgus(_at_)packardbell(_dot_)com
Technical Specialist & SysAdmin
On-Line Services Group
Packard Bell Electronics, Inc.