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Re: what means the parameters Y, d and T

2003-01-21 06:43:30
VIVES Ariel skribis:

In the file fetmailrc, I can tell to fetchmail to give the mails to
procmail with the command :
   mda "/usr/bin/procmail -Y -d %T"
what means the options -Y, and -d and %T please ?

From man fetchmail:

       -m, --mda
              (Keyword: mda) You can force mail to be  passed  to
              an  MDA directly (rather than forwarded to port 25)
              with the -mda or -m option.  If fetchmail  is  run-
              ning  as  root,  it  sets its userid to that of the
              target user while delivering mail through  an  MDA.
              Some  possible  MDAs are "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem",
              "/usr/lib/sendmail -oem",  "/usr/bin/formail",  and
              "/usr/bin/deliver".   Local delivery addresses will
              be inserted into the MDA command wherever you place
              a  %T;  the  mail  message's  From  address will be
              inserted where you place an %F.  Do not use an  MDA
              invocation  like "sendmail -oem -t" that dispatches
              on the contents of To/Cc/Bcc, it will  create  mail
              loops  and bring the just wrath of many postmasters
              down upon your head.


From man procmail:

       -Y   Assume  traditional  Berkeley  mailbox format, ignore
            any Content-Length: fields.
[...]
       -d recipient ...
            This  turns  on explicit delivery mode, delivery will
            be to the local user  recipient.   This,  of  course,
            only  is possible if procmail has root privileges (or
            if procmail is already running with  the  recipient's
            euid and egid).  Procmail will setuid to the intended
            recipients and  delivers  the  mail  as  if  it  were
            invoked  by  the recipient with no arguments (i.e. if
            no rcfile is found, delivery is like ordinary  mail).
            This option is incompatible with -p.


-- 
Ruud


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