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Subject: Re: Newbie researching
At 15:54 2003-04-17 +0700, Indramin Darmadi did say:
But that would require to setup an alias for each user, right?
Indeedy - although the entire configuration would still exist in one file
(/etc/mail/aliases). Of course, handling it within an /etc/procmailrc
poses some issues as well - such as whether the recipient user has a
.forward which doesn't invoke procmail, instead forwarding it elsewhere or
whatnot - procmail may not be invoked, thus bypassing your plans to copy
their email to another party through the use of a recipe in /etc/procmailrc.
I've done a lot of kludges in my day, but I really do prefer to use the
right tool for any given job, and in this case, that's really an MTA alias.
And I'm looking for a more 'advance' sorting,
IIRC, sorting wasn't in your example. Generally though, sorting is done
per-recipient.
such as conditional sorting. I found out that by using alias, great chance
that a user might receive a double email.
That scame chance exists with procmail copies. A procmail recipe to make a
copy for another user is basically:
:0c
* condition
! otheruser(_at_)domain(_dot_)tld
When procmail is invoked during local delivery, it'll be invoked for each
separate local recipient. Which means that the above recipe (or whatever
you actually use) will be invoked multiple times.
Sure, you could put in a dupe checker, such as exists in 'man procmailex',
using a formail messageid cache. Of course, you could put one of those on
the front of each of the forwarded-to mailboxes, which would work just as
well, and keep the message replication at the MTA level where it belongs.
For example, an email mailed to bill and cc-ed to john, if I use alias,
then in my 'archive' mail box, I'll have 2 email.
Are you so sure of that? The MTA should be resolving the recipients in one
fell swoop.
Set up some mail aliases:
user1: user1, someotheruser
user2: user2, someotheruser
then:
sendmail -bv user1 user2
How many times does someotheruser get resolved by sendmail?
(this applies to sendmail, I don't know how other MTAs handle alias
expansion)
Anyway, how about outgoing mail? Can I do filtering with procmail, or
other tool? I want to have a carbon copy of all the outgoing email.
Not without some hacking of your MTA. Procmail is an LDA.
On Thursday, April 17, 2003, at 01:20 PM, Professional Software
Engineering wrote:
[snip]
Topquoting is generally frowned upon - if you need context, quote it within
your topical reply, otherwise, don't include it.
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