Fritz Feuerbacher asked,
| If I look in my logfile I see that Porcmail has extracted the Address
| of the person who sent the mail and put it in a line that starts with
| From ....
Actually, it has extracted the From_ line, which shows what your site be-
lieves to be the address of the envelope sender, who should (but might not)
be the party who directed it to you and may or may not be the writer of the
text.
| What I want to know is, instead of me using formail to get the persons
| email address how can I just use the info that procmail is already getting
| for its log file? This way I can just use its From address and not have
| to get it using formail which just takes more time....
You can't easily get it from the logabstract, but in procmail versions (since
approximately 3.06) that support extraction, you can take it from the From_
line yourself without calling formail; the brackets enclose caret, space, tab:
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* ^^From *\/[^ ]+
{ ENVELOPE_SENDER=$MATCH }