Re: .procmailrc multiple actions

[Sven Burgener <svenb@bluewin.ch>]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 07:02:01PM +0100, Marc A. Donges wrote:
> On Friday, February 02, 2001 at 18:41:16 (+0100), Sven Burgener wrote:
> > --8<--
> > :0
> > * ^From: Mail Delivery Subsystem
> > | (formail -I "To: user1@domain.com") |\
> >   (formail -I "CC: user2@domain.com, user3@domain.com") | $SENDMAIL -t
> > 
> > :0
> > ! admin@localhost
> > --8<--
> 
> The first recipy is a delivering one. This means that if the first
> pattern matches, the mail won't get to the second.

True, but ...

> If you want to have both actions taken, you must specify the "c" flag
> on the first one (":0c" instead of ":0").

... that wasn't my question.

It is not my intention to apply both the formail'ing and the '!'
forwarding to one particular email.

> Furthermore, your first recipy will almost certainly create
> mail-loops: If user1@domain.com cannot be delivered to, the mail will
> be bounced to the account that did the above procmail-filtering, in
> turn being forwarded to user1@domain.com. You should therefore specify
> "-f '<>'" on the sendmail-command-line to create a
> zero-return-address.

Thanks for the info about this issue. I'll take that into account.

> Why do you want those headers to appear in the message?

I merely want the mail to appear to be destined to "user1@domain.com"
instead of the user on the system that has the above .procmailrc file
and that receives this email in the first place.

Additionally, I want to add a CC: to the message on-the-fly, overwriting
an existing one, if there.

I must apologise, the above code *does* work. My test scenario / test
setup was misleading me.  /me blushes

Thank you for your time and insight, though.

Sven
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