On Fri, 2014-05-30 at 10:36 -0600, LuKreme wrote:
On 30 May 2014, at 09:59 , Alan Clifford <lists(_at_)clifford(_dot_)ac> wrote:
Arthur Dent wrote (at 12:13 (+0100) on Friday, 30th May, 2014):
Is there a way to inform procmail explicitly to pass on from root to
user=mark?
I am thinking something like this:
Delete this
# Anything else falls through to me:
| /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -d mark
add this to /etc/aliases
# Person who should get root's mail
root: alan
assuming you are using sendmail. Hmmm, thinks, you said "collect" mail, so
I'm not sure what you are using to launch procmail
That won't work, it will alias ALL the root mail to alan before handing it
off to the /etc/procmailrc
I'm going to try Alan's suggestion because what put me on to all this
was the fact that I had already aliased root to my user in order to get
the system messages (Fedora 20 now ships without an MDA and all system
emails are disabled by default - to get system emails I needed to alias
root to my account).
In testing something else I discovered that these system emails were
being delivered my my .procmailrc which I had simply left there thinking
it was now obsolete - the system emails were being delivered, but to a
different mailbox to the one I was expecting. After a lot of
hair-tearing I realised that my old .procmailrc was still there and that
was what was being used to deliver the system mail.
I will try Alan's suggestion and let you know if it works.
I think what you have to do is call procmail from the /etc/procmailrc and
then call the dovecot LDA from the .procmailrc.
so, in procmailrc:
#deliver anything else to mark
:0
| /usr/local/bin/procmail -d mark
(I don't know if you need any flags on that recipe or not, test first. Test
*a lot* first.)
And if Alan's idea doesn't work - this is exactly the sort of thing that
I was thinking of. I looked in man procmail but I did not see the -d
switch. I've looked again and now wonder why I missed it...
Then, in your .procmailrc, at the end you do
:0
| /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -m $MYBOX
I already have that...
(do not put a f (or w?) flag on this, dovecot-lda is a delivery pipe.
Ahh... I have :0 w on all my (dovecot-lda) delivery recipes. I saw that
on the Dovecot wiki. Is that wrong?
Thanks again.
Mark
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