[TriLUG] Email filtering script

[Dean Price]

Sorry about that ... The idea of "virtual" anything confuses me every once in a
while

Thanks for the help

-- 
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 5/16/04 9:09 AM:
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
> 
> If you notice, the place where I said to put your username in the procmail
> recipe is preceded by a #.  That's the shell comment.  So, it doesn't
> really matter what's there, as long as it's unique.  See the web page I
> mentioned: (specifically, this paragraph)
> 
> "The #youruserid which trails the formail syntax is intended to ensure that
> each
> .forward in a system is sufficiently unique (without it, your .forward and
> dozens of other users may actually be identical). If each .forward isn't
> unique,
> it is actually possible that some MTAs will optimize the duplicate
> invocations
> (normally expecting an address list) and discard some. While you shouldn't
> necessarily care whether some other sod on your server loses his mail
> because
> he's doing things improperly, YOU don't want that to happen to YOUR mail, so
> be
> sure to put your own userid there."
> 
> Now, as far as virtual users are concerned, to procmail, that's just another
> header (or form of a header).  If you can match it with a regular expression
> you can handle it however you want.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
> 
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