Hmmm,
1) Copying all incoming mail for backup (or other) purposes
2) Rewriting various addresses (project(_at_)foo(_dot_)com -->
proj_manager(_at_)foo(_dot_)com)
3) Blocking objectionable mail
4) Stripping attachments, etc
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Trevor Jenkins wrote:
All the recipes I've seen here (or elsewhere on the 'net) appear to be
personal. There's little, if any, mention of how useful /etc/procmail can
be. The man page only says that procmail will use /etc/procmail before it
uses $HOME/.procmailrc.
So I'm left wonder how useful is /etc/procmail. Will it be used when any
email message arrives and how much can I have it do before a user
account's .procmailrc is invoked?
For example, can I use /etc/procmail to rewrite email that would not
normaly be accepted here because the addressee is neither an extant
username or a valid alias? Some of my non-computer-literate friends get my
address wrong (typically putting an extra period at the end of my name) so
could I have recipes in /etc/procmail that correct their mistakes by
re-writing the header? Or am I fitting a lossing battle because sendmail
will have already bounced it back?
Regards, Trevor
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