Re: vpopmail bouncing problems

An example:

    In ~/.qmail:

        |preline /usr/bin/procmail
        |/var/qmail/bin/bouncesaying 'Sorry, go away'

    And, as a simple example, in ~/.procmailrc, (or
    /etc/procmailrc):
        
        DEFAULT="nbari"
        LOGFILE="${HOME}/PROCMAIL.LOG"
        VERBOSE="on"
        LOGABSTRACT="all"
        #
        EXITCODE=99
        #
        :0
        * ^from:[ ]+(_dot_)*conover(_at_)rahul\(_dot_)net
        conover
        #
        :0
        * ^sender:[ 
]+(.*[^-0-9a-z._+=?*])*procmail-admin(_at_)lists\(_dot_)rwth-aachen\(_dot_)de
        procmail
        #
        :0
        * ^from:[ ]+(_dot_)someone(_at_)you-dontlike\(_dot_)com
        {
            #
            # Mail from someone(_at_)you-dontlike(_dot_)com gets bounced with
            # the message "Sorry, go away" to the envelope from
            # address.
            #
            EXITCODE=0
            #
            :0
            /dev/null
        }
        #
        # Any remaining e-mail will be filed in the nbari file.
        #

Note that you can not test the script as:

    procmail ~/.procmailrc < testemail

where testemail is a test email message file. You have to:

    qmail-inject -fsender nbari < testemail

where sender is the same address as in the 'From conover(_at_)rahul(_dot_)net 
Wed
Dec 12 ...'  first line header.

        John

John Conover writes:
> The EXITCODE=99 goes at the top of the file, before any delivery-its
> the default procmail exit back to ~/.qmail file, and stops qmail-local
> from executing the rest of the ~/.qmail file, (i.e., bouncesaying.) To
> qmail-local, it means the message was delivered by piping it to
> preline procmail, quit.
>
> Everything exits with EXITCODE=99, unless there is an exception.
>
> Use EXITCODE=0 just prior to any exception; all messages have to be
> handled in the procmail script, so its something like:
>
>     EXITCODE=0
>     :0
>     /dev/null
>
> which will handle the message by dumping it in /dev/null, in procmail,
> and tells qmail-local that the message was not delivered, continue
> executing the lines in ~/.qmail, (i.e., bouncesaying pipe will then
> bounce the message.)
>
>       John
>
> BTW, you should use ~/.qmail, unless you are specifically using the
> dash extensions. The reason is that if I send a message to
> nbari-asdf(_at_)unixmexico(_dot_)com, it will be handled by ~/.qmail-default,
> even though nbari-asdf doesn't exist. If you use ~/.qmail, then it
> won't get that far; qmail will bounce the message, immediately,
> because there are no dash extensions handled by the account nbari.
>
> If you do use extensions, identify them specifically; ~/qmail-john,
> ~/qmail-fred, etc.
>
> nbari(_at_)unixmexico(_dot_)com writes:
> > ok on my .qmail-default i have
> >
> > |preline /usr/local/bin/procmail -p -m /etc/procmailrc
> > |/var/qmail/bin/bouncesaying 'Whatever you want to say here'
> >
> > now on my /etc/procmialrc
> >
> > i have
> >
> > INCLUDERC=/usr/local/squirrelmail/plugins/block_sender/sqblock.rc
> > :0w
> > |/usr/local/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
> >
> > and here i should put the exitcode=99 ?
> >
> > sorry but i dont undertand the part of the .procmailrc file
> > can you showme an example
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> >
> > > With qmail, you might try, in ~/.qmail:
> > >
> > >     |preline /usr/bin/procmail
> > >     |/var/qmail/bin/bouncesaying 'Whatever you want to say here'
> > >
> > > and then in ~/.procmailrc
> > >
> > >     #
> > >     # default exitcode=99 if the procmailrc script delivers the
> > >     # message; exitcode=0, (yes, that is correct; 99 is the normal #
> > > exit, 0 is the exception handling,)
> > >     #
> > >     EXITCODE=99
> > >     .
> > >     .
> > >     .
> > >     :0
> > >     * this
> > >     * and
> > >     * that
> > >     this-and-that file
> > >     .
> > >     .
> > >     .
> > >     :0
> > >     * an
> > >     * exception
> > >     {
> > >         #
> > >         # exception handling ...
> > >   #
> > >   EXITCODE=0
> > >   /dev/null
> > >     }
> > >
> > > where the last conditional will bounce the message back to the
> > > sender's envelope address, with the error message "Whatever you want to
> > > say here".
> > >
> > >   John
> > >
> > > BTW, the reason you want to do it this way is that qmail-local, (the
> > > qmail delivery agent,) has a lot of very useful variables set in the
> > > environment, (such as all the envelope variables-which may not be the
> > > same as what's in the message header-which can be
> > > changed/manipulated,) and qmail-local invokes ~/.qmail, but not
> > > procmail, (preline does that.)
> > >
> > > At any rate, as per man qmail-local, the recommended way of doing it is
> > > to run bouncesaying(1) out of ~/.qmail.
> > >
> > > Also, see man qmail-control for the exit codes.
> > >
> > > nbari(_at_)unixmexico(_dot_)com writes:
> > > > when puting
> > > >  |bouncesaying "whatever you want here."
> > > >
> > > > Instead of putting EXITCODE=100
> > > >
> > > > i get this :
> > > >
> > > > procmail: Skipped "|/var/qmail/bin/bouncesaying "This address no
> > > > longer accepts mail." "
-- 

John Conover, conover(_at_)rahul(_dot_)net, http://www.rahul.net/~conover

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