Am 2007-09-20 12:35:33, schrieb Steven Narmontas:
From: notification-service(_at_)elluminate(_dot_)com
If a person at the college wants ALL of their email forwarded to say,
myaddress(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com, a script inserts the following into that
user's procmailrc file:
:0
* !^FROM_MAILER
! myaddress(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com
:0
/dev/null
The FROM_MAILER macro expands to a regular expression that's spelled
out in the procmailrc man page. Only messages with headers that do
NOT match the FROM_MAILER regular expression are forwarded to
myaddress(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com All other messages are discarded.
This condition is used to prevent mail loops from bounced messages,
delivery failures and such.
???
----8<----------------------------------------------------------
:0
* ! ^X-Loop: "notification-service(_at_)elluminate\(_dot_)com
* ^From:(_dot_)*notification-service(_at_)elluminate\(_dot_)com
{
:0fw
|fromail -f -I "X-Loop: "notification-service(_at_)elluminate(_dot_)com
:0
!myaddress(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com
}
:0
/dev/null
----8<----------------------------------------------------------
The trouble is the automated messages from the web conferencing system
are being discarded because FROM_MAILER matches the line:
From: notification-service(_at_)elluminate(_dot_)com
specifically because the word 'service' appears on the From line.
Where is the problem?
I don't want to ask our sysadmin to change the procmail recipe used
for mail forwarding to allow the email messages from this (widely used
at the college) web conferencing system to be forwarded. I would
rather ask the web conferencing company to change the From: header in
their automated emails. All they would have to do is remove the word
'service'.
WHY?
Questions:
Is the simple recipe for forwarding ALL email to another account shown
above commonly used?
See above which is what I do all over the place...
Is there an RFC or other standard or recommendation that governs the
use of the word 'service' in a From: header?
No, service is a legal word...
You can use ANY COMBINATION of "a-zA-Z0-9.-" and if the MTA allows the "_".
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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