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Mail relaying using SMTP/procmail ?

1997-09-09 13:08:53
Hello guys,
 
 I got this message in my mailbox. I am not sure why Derald sent it to me
privately (as a reply to one of my recent mails to the procmail-list), but
I am afraid I cant be be of much help to him. 

Hence forwarding it to the list.

Thanks,
Vikas

-----Forwarded message from Derald Muniz <muniz(_at_)sdt(_dot_)com>-----

Vikas,
I have spent a great deal of time reading up on procmail.  I have a Redhat
2.0.29 system running on a 486.  I have put the 
procmail.g file /etc with a procmail.rc file that I got from someone on
this mailing list.  

This is what I want to achieve:

A user set their SMTP system to be my Redhat Linux machine
They send a message using SMTP from their POP3 mail software to this linux
system
How do I know that procmail will pick it up and not sendmail first?  I
assume that they both need to be running on the Linux system?
I then want the mail (mail that makes it through the procmail filter) to go
on to the "real" SMTP server for actual mail processing.

I have around 1500 email users from various parts of the world that
currently use my NT system for SMTP/POP3 services.  Of course
I have NO anit-relaying capability so I am getting relayed to death.  This
is why I am trying to see if I can implement a procmail solution.

I use Post.Office on NT 4.0 currently, but I want to use the Linux system
as a "middle man" for processing mail.

I am on the right track?

-----End of forwarded message-----

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