On Tue, 4 May 1999 00:20:34 +0200 (CEST), Johannes Philipp Krone
<jpk(_at_)kiste(_dot_)itc(_dot_)or(_dot_)at> wrote:
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* !^From(_dot_)*internetz*(_at_)vibe(_dot_)at
!jpk(_at_)maxonline(_dot_)at
(mails that don't come from *internetz*(_at_)vibe(_dot_)at should be
forwarded to the
given address and saved to the default mailbox file)
Minor nit: *internetz* is an invalid regular expression. Your
condition says you want to execute the action on anything not matching
^ Beginning of line, followed by
From the literal string "From" (case insignificant), followed by
.* nothing, or anything (zero or more of any character), followed by
internet the literal string "internet" (case insignificant), followed by
z* zero or more occurrences of the character "z", followed by
@vibe the literal string "vibe@" (case insignificant), followed by
. any character, followed by
at the literal string "at" (case insignificant)
Note in particular the meaning of . (any character) and * (zero or
more repetitions of the previous regular expression).
The host of the destination host 'forgot' its users and therefor
the mail got bounced back to me (jpk(_at_)kiste(_dot_)itc(_dot_)or(_dot_)at)
- this
mailerdaemon-mail was forwarded to jpk(_at_)maxonline(_dot_)at, got bounced
and forwarded again ... and so on.
The procmailex man page has a smallish discussion of this topic.
Basically, you insert a special header saying "this has already been
forwarded" (the customary header to use is X-Loop: with a string you
can be reasonably sure is unique, such as your own e-mail address) and
don't forward anything already containing this header. (It is also
fairly usual to not forward stuff from MAILER_DAEMON, i.e. bounces
etc., or forward it under constrained conditions only.)
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* ! ^From:(.*\<)?internetz[^<> @]*(_at_)vibe\(_dot_)at
* ! ^FROM_DAEMON
* ! ^X-Loop: jpk(_at_)maxonline\(_dot_)at
| formail -A "X-Loop: jpk(_at_)maxonline(_dot_)at" \
| $SENDMAIL $SENDMAILFLAGS jpk(_at_)maxonline(_dot_)at
I am assuming you were meaning to forward anything from the address
internetz, possibly followed by a plussed string or something. (The
^From condition line is only a rough approximation of this. The stuff
between > and @ is a space and a tab.)
If you want bounces forwarded generally, but not bounces with the
X-Loop header in them, you'll probably have to look for the X-Loop:
header in the body of the bounce (or maybe not; examine one of the
bounces to see what you can match on).
Hope this helps,
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