At 17:23 2003-04-03 -0700, Scott Wiersdorf did say:
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:40:56PM +0000, Kevin Alford wrote:
Your best bet is to snag them with procmail before they get to your
queue.
This is generally a bit more difficult to do on messages which are being
_sent_. It IS doable.
I tested the example provided in the procmail manpage, and it worked, but I
haven't looked at procmail invocation from sendmail rulesets since before
sendmail split to their MSA methodology (along with two separate .cf files
- sendmail.cf and submit.cf). Last time I bothered, it was all managed in
one .cf. Good news is that it should be easier to apply separate
sendmail-invoked processing to locally submitted messages, versus messages
which arrive via SMTP (say, which are being relayed).
Note that with mail queue files, there are _two_ files - the message, and
the queue status file (containing recipients and delivery data, plus the
headers, in a sendmail syntax ("H??Headername: header content"). The
message file is still very much like a regular email message, but cannot be
processed by procmail as-is - you'd really have to use a wrapper script to
fiddle with it, and yea, at that point, if you have something simple, grep
should suffice.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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Thank you very much! I have already figured out how to do this with grep.
Kevin D. Alford
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