Hello
I am trying to get around a deficiency with our mail client Eudora, in that
it has no auto_bcc: option unlike say Pegasus or NS-Messenger. We want
certain staff to always get a copy of their bosses outgoing e-mail & with
our current server IMAP is broken because we use Maildir format mailboxes &
the only Maildir-aware IMAPD (courier) will not compile on the server
(Solaris 4.1.3_U1)
What I have set up in prototype is an master account which receives all
output from the Postfix "always_bcc" config option. This account has a
.procmailrc + the standard procmail forward set up.
.forward = "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75#mailtest"
With very simple test recipe as below, it performs as expected, a message
from the target generates exactly one forwarded message to the coasupport
address (it only sends one copy even if the original message had more than
one recipient, which is what we want).
DEFAULT=/dev/null
:0
* ^X-Sender: manager(_at_)mail(_dot_)coa(_dot_)cranfield(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk
! coasupport(_at_)cranfield(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk
However, it does, however, also try to send a copy to the master account
itself which generates a mail forwarding loop, this is detected by Postfix
which handles it. The message to MAILER_DAEMON gets dumped to /dev/null
(which is acceptable I guess) but in the process, it writes syslog records
which are going to bump up the size of my log files.
Has anyone seen this before or got a work around for it ?
Regards
Les Oswald
"slowly and surely drew their plans against us"
H G Wells - The War of the Worlds
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