Procmail & Tru64

From: John Deacon (jrd_at_star.ucl.ac.uk)
Date: 04/29/03

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To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov

    Hi all -

    possibly a little off-topic but i've had no help from the procmail mailing
    list so here goes...

    i've installed procmail so i can use spamassassin and noticed an annoying
    feature which i initially thought was down to spamassassin but further
    investigation seems to indicate it's actually procmail. what happens is
    that all incoming mail goes through procmail and gets the header rewritten
    such that the 'To:' and 'Cc:' fields have the hostnames stripped out of
    all addresses. so, for example, an email sent

      From: user@some.where
      To: jrd@star.ucl.ac.uk, abc@some.other.place
      Cc: someone@some.where.else

    will appear in my inbox as

      From: user@some.where
      To: John Deacon <jrd>, abc
      Cc: someone

    this doesn't happen if i don't pass email through procmail. obviously this
    can make replying to all recipients a little tricky...

    i'm currently using a ~/.forward file containing (as recommended in the
    docs)

      "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #jrd"

    and my ~/.procmailrc file is now totally empty so procmail should be doing
    nothing at all to incoming emails but it's still stripping out hostnames...

    this is procmail v3.22 built out of the box with the default settings on a
    Tru64 v5.1 (PK6) machine. procmail on a Linux machine doesn't seem to do
    this, so is this a Tru64 'feature' or just something i'm doing wrong ?

    TIA,

     john

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