[TriLUG] Email filtering script

[Dean Price]

Would that work with virtual users....

I have a default username for the account (dprice) and then several virtual
username (the actuall email accounts)(deano, cathy) 

It just seems to me that if I use the dprice in that line that it would look for
.procmailrc in the /home/dprice directory... but if it doesn't match anything
in .procmail where would the mail go at that point?

Maybe I am over thinking the process but I don't want to lose any mail either.

Would I be able to use the virtual usernames in its place... I wouldn't think so
because procmail wouldn't know where to find its .procmailrc file.


-- 
Thank you,
Dean Price
dprice153 at charter.net
deano at price4.org


Quoting Tanner Lovelace <lovelace at wayfarer.org>:

> Dean Price said the following on 5/15/04 3:25 PM:
> 
> > Unfortunately, it is a hosting company... and I do not have that access to
> the
> > exim.conf file to make changes.
> > 
> > My dir is /home/user/
> > 
> > under that is mail/domain/users/
> > 
> > 
> > I have determined however that I can read the exim.conf file.
> > 
> > userforward:
> > #!!# filter renamed allow_filter
> >   driver = redirect
> >   allow_filter
> >   check_ancestor
> >   check_local_user
> >   domains = ! lsearch;/etc/userdomains
> >   no_expn
> >   file = $home/.forward
> >   file_transport = address_file
> >   pipe_transport = address_pipe
> >   reply_transport = address_reply
> >   no_verify
> > 
> > It look to me that as long as a .forward file exists... 
> > 
> > Hmmmm,
> > 
> 
> If you can use a .forward, you can invoke procmail like this:
> 
> "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -Yf- || exit 75 #youruserid"
> 
> Just put that in your .forward (substituting the correct location
> for procmail and making sure you put your userid at the end) and
> things should work.  If procmail can't write the mail out
> it this will return 75 which should tell the mail program to
> requeue it and try to deliver later.  (For more information
> see this page: http://www.professional.org/procmail/).
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
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