Thank you for your replies. I have written, with copious
help from this list ;) the following system for a soccer
club.
Email is generated by a club member who I call an
Originator from a web page/perl script and sent
to a Gatekeeper email account. I control the To, From,
and Subject. (Subject always starts "Webmail: ")
The perl script makes sure a subject is entered, and
that an email address is specified, and if I can ever
get ckaddr.pl to work, I will even do a quick check for
valid email addresses. I can run perl scripts, but
cant get subroutines from other scripts to run yet.
To: Gatekeeper
From: Gatekeeper (don't jump to conclusions)
Subject: Webmail: The user's subject here
(in the body: name, phone, Originators email address)
** I want to change the subject to include the Originators
email address, for reasons that will be apparent later -
I will do that in the Perl script
Subject: Webmail: The user's subject here *- bozo(_at_)bozo(_dot_)com
My Procmail script is for the Gatekeeper.
The email is saved and a copy of the email is sent to
a Destination email account, usually a club officer.
Multiple Destination accounts can be chosen.
To: clubofficer(_at_)bozo(_dot_)com
From: Gatekeeper(_at_)bozo(_dot_)com
Subject: Webmail: The user's subject here *- bozo(_at_)bozo(_dot_)com
Now Destination has the email. Here is where the problem is.
If I try and pass the Originator's email address in some
header field like X-Mail-Comment, Destinations email generator
strips off all header lines when replying (or replying and
including the original message) except for (sic)
Return-Path:
Delivered-To:
Subject:
Sender:
To:
From:
I can't change any of these fields. The Destination replies to the
Gatekeeper
To: Gatekeeper(_at_)bozo(_dot_)com
From: clubofficer(_at_)bozo(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: Webmail: The user's subject here *- bozo(_at_)bozo(_dot_)com
who in turn sends it back to the Originator - providing there is
some way to preserve the Originator's email address.
I want a copy of the original and of the reply in the Gatekeeper account,
because I write the subjects to a log file, and can
tell if the club officers have responded to the Originators
email. In the logfile I should see pairs:
Webmail: The user's subject here *- bozo(_at_)bozo(_dot_)com
Re: Webmail: The user's subject here *- bozo(_at_)bozo(_dot_)com
I absolutely refuse to have folks email the club
and not know if a response from the club got sent. After
3 days or so, if the club officer did not respond, I respond
or forward the original to someone else to respond to.
Finally, procmail deals with the reply by looking for "Re: Webmail:"
(of course, I will make the first line in the body of the original
to say don't change the subject line when replying). Here is
where I need to strip out the email address from the subject line:
To: bozo(_at_)bozo(_dot_)com
From: clubofficer(_at_)bozo(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: Webmail: The user's subject here *- bozo(_at_)bozo(_dot_)com
Now, Originator and Destination can reply until hell freezes over,
Gatekeeper is out of the loop.
My procmail script is pretty long - I send out a mailing list
(think *era*) and DO check for mail loops, etc.
This is why I want to do what I do.
Thanks for your help
Tom
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