SUMMARY: Procmail & Tru64

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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:05:38 +0100 (BST)
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov

Thanks to

  Lucio Chiappetti <lucio@mi.iasf.cnr.it>
  Bryan Dunlap <bcd@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>
  John Pelan <J.Pelan@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>

for pointing me in the right direction. The problem was actually down to
the DEC/Compaq/HP sendmail.cf configuration file that I was using. I've
been meaning to upgrade to a custom-built version of sendmail for some
time but version 8.9.3 that comes with Tru64 v5.1 had seemed to be working
OK.

However, when procmail was invoked it looks like one of the rules for
'Local, IMAP, and Program mailers' was screwing things up. Specifically:

  Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=SlsDFMmnu, S=10/40, R=20/50, A=mail -r $g -d $u
  Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFM, S=10, R=20, A=sh -c $u
  Mimap, P=/usr/bin/deliver, F=nsmFDMu, S=10, R=20/50, A=deliver $u

  #
  # Envelope sender rewriting
  #
  S10
  R@ $n errors to mailer-daemon
  R$+ $: $>60 $1 add local domain if needed

  #
  # Envelope recipient rewriting
  #
  S20
  R$+ < @ $* > $: $1 strip host part

So not being sure of sendmail syntax I've just modified the last line to
stop it stripping out the host part:

  R@ $n errors to mailer-daemon

and all mail is now arriving with headers intact.

"I'd recommend Postfix ;-)" is another solution that might be worth checking
out...

thanks,

john

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Original message:

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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