Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 07:53:48 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: foo+bar@ addresses, procmail, and postfix Message-ID: <3E93D18C.15952.1423CB34@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3E940751.332EC37D@mindspring.com>
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On 9 Apr 2003 at 4:43, Terry Lambert wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > > > But either way, you need to modify the MDA invocation by the MTA, > > > on local delivery. > > > > Done. And how I did that was in my original message. > > By using procmail on all local mail. 8-(. Yep, which is all I've found so far. > > > That's because mail.local doesn't take or pass on optional > > > arguments to programs invoked in .forward files. It's an > > > MDA that doesn't support that. > > > > But Postfix does. > > Postfix is not a local delivery agent. True, damn acronyms. > > I'd rather disturb the existing setup as little as possible. > > Understood. I thought perhaps the reason for this was that it > was being hosted for you, and that your "procmail everything" > was just a proof-of-concept. Sorry, no, it was trying to find out how to do it. > > > > Any comments? Ideas? Improvements? > > > > > > Don't run procmail globally. Replace your mail.local, if you need > > > to, but don't run procmail globally. > > > > I'm the only user on this system. I'd rather not replace > > mail.local. > > Well you have, with procmail. 8-). But if you're the only user, then > it doesn't matter. True. I have. If it's that each, perhaps all I need to do is change this line in the Postfix config file: mailbox_command = /usr/local/bin/procmail -a "$EXTENSION" > What should probably be noted is that this will not work for > people whose email service is being hosted by someone else, > since hosting providers tend to frown on changes to global > mail configurations. Agreed. What I'm doing isn't for most people. > If you're not willing to replace mail.local as the local MDA, > then I guess you've got the best you are going to get for this. But I just got told (by you) that I already have done this. ;) I've been using procmail because it has worked for me in the past and my work has always been on machines over which I have full control. I'll poke around the Postfix website and mailing lists and see what mail.local replacements have been used/recommended. cheers. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
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