[Dovecot] deliver rewrites envelop-sender

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

Hello!

Yes, DELIVER_SKIP_PATH would be a good idea. But I really wanted to avoid 
to use procmail at all.

BTW: What is your problem with the first FROM line, I really didn't 
unterstand the problem there?

Ciao,
Gerhard

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On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Ralf Becker wrote:

> Hello Gerhard,
>
> thanks for the fast reply.
>
> I've patched procmail (it's working great) and for now, I'm using this
> configuration:
>
> /etc/procmailrc
> ---------------
> DELIVER_INBOX=yes
> DELIVER_REPLACE_INBOX_NAME=yes
> DELIVER_NEW_INBOX_NAME=INBOX
> DELIVER_ABSOLUTE_PATH=yes
> DELIVER_PIPE_NO_LOCK=yes
> DELIVER_RAW_MODE=yes
> DELIVER_REMOVE_FROM=yes
> DELIVER_PROGRAM="/usr/bin/deliver -m \$BOXNAME -f \$ENVELOP_SENDER -d
> \$RECIPIENT"
>
> :0
> * ^From \/[^ ]*
> {
>        ENVELOP_SENDER=$MATCH
> }
> ENVELOP_SENDER=${ENVELOP_SENDER:-MAILER-DAEMON at fh-trier.de}
>
> .procmailrc
> -----------
> :0
> * ^X\-RFT\-FORWARD: beckerr at fh\-trier\.de -> XXXX at YYY\.de
> {
>        DELIVER_PROGRAM
>        :0
>        /dev/null
> }
> :0 Ec
> | formail -I 'X-RFT-FORWARD: beckerr at fh-trier.de -> XXXX at YYY.de' -s
> /usr/lib/sendmail -i XXXX at YYY.de
>
>
> As you see I have to unset DELIVER_PROGRAM to discard looping messages
> by sending them to /dev/null. This is a little bit unhandy, because
> other users have to alter their .procmailrc too.
>
> What do you think about defining an environment variable like
> 	DELIVER_SKIP_PATH=/dev:/tmp
> to set a number of paths for which (dovecot-)deliver is skipped and
> instead procmail is used to save the mail.
>
> Regards, Ralf
>
> PS: Gruß aus Trier, der ältesten Stadt Deutschlands :-)
>
> Gerhard Wiesinger schrieb am 07.01.2007 21:07:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm the author of the procmail patch for dovecot's deliver program.
>>
>> You can specify -f <envelope sender> with dovecot deliver when I
>> remember correctly.
>>
>> DELIVER_PROGRAM="/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -m \$BOXNAME -d
>> \$RECIPIENT -f SOMETHING_ELSE -c /etc/dovecot.conf"
>> (Can't remember whether there was a variable for the from user or not,
>> when yes you can specify the from user, too.
>> )
>> When you need any help feel free to contact me.
>>
>> BTW: The First from line is only the mbox delimiter and really has no
>> effect on the Mail headers. I also have MAILER-DAEMON in the From line
>> without any problems at all. So this is IHMO only cosmetic.
>>
>> @Timo:
>> Running /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver (without any parameters waiting for
>> stdin) and pressing Ctrl-C => Core dump with dovecot 1.0rc17.
>>
>> Grüße aus Wien :-)
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Gerhard
>>
>> --
>> http://www.wiesinger.com/
>>
>
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