"Philip" == Philip Guenther <guenther(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu> writes:
Philip> "M.A. Powe" <looie(_at_)teleport(_dot_)com> writes:
>>>>>>> "David" == David W Tamkin <dattier(_at_)wwa(_dot_)com> writes:
David> Is procmail your LDA or are you calling it from ~/.forward?
David> Procmail will know that something is $1 only if it is
>> Procmail is my LDA and is set up in what seems to be the
>> standard manner in sendmail.cf: at least, this follows the
>> example in the procmail manpage:
>> ##### @(#)procmail.m4 8.5 (Berkeley) 12/28/95 #####
>> Mprocmail, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=DFMmShu, S=11/31, R=21/31, \
>> T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, A=procmail -m $h $f $u
Philip> Well, this is definition of the procmail mailer, not the
Philip> local mailer. Furthermore, there's more to
Philip> plus-addressing support than the definition of the local
Philip> mailer. Ruleset 0 or 5 needs to be set up to move
Philip> everything after the + into the 'host' variable ($h).
Oops.
Well, here's what that looks like. I did look into the part about
Ruleset 5 while trying it on originally. But all I could do was make
sure that the plus-addressing section was there. I believe that I
found mention of this also in one of the filtering faqs, so I checked
that the rules matched what was in the faq.
###########################################################################
### Ruleset 5 -- special rewriting after aliases have been expanded
###
###########################################################################
S5
# deal with plussed users so aliases work nicely
R$+ + * $#local $@ $&h $: $1
R$+ + $* $#local $@ $2 $: $1 + *
##################################################
### Local and Program Mailer specification ###
##################################################
##### @(#)local.m4 8.23 (Berkeley) 5/31/96 #####
Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=10/30,
R=20/40,
T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u
Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=10/30, R=20/40, D=$z:/,
T=X-Unix,
A=sh -c $u
mp
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