Fred Viles wrote:
On 22 May 2005 at 22:08, Craig Jackson wrote about
    "Re: [exim] Using IMAP folders as qu":

|...
| Well, because I'm a not too smart guy, this is the best I can come up | with: email that needs to be released can be copied using IMAP MUA into | a Release folder. This rough draft cron script runs every minute:
|
| #!/bin/bash
| | QUEUEDIR=/var/spool/exim/vmail/postmaster/Maildir/cur

Should be QUEUEDIR=/var/spool/exim/vmail/postmaster/Maildir/.Release
or some such, shouldn't it?

| for EMAIL in `ls $QUEUEDIR`
| do
|    RECIPIENTS=""
|    RCPT_LIST=`egrep "^RCPT TO:" $QUEUEDIR/$EMAIL | egrep -o \
|       "[^<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]+"`
|          for RECIPIENT in $RCPT_LIST
|          do
|                  RECIPIENTS="$RECIPIENTS,$RECIPIENT"
|          done
|          RECIPIENTS=`echo $RECIPIENTS | sed "s/^,//"`
| | SENDER=`egrep "^MAIL FROM:" $QUEUEDIR/$EMAIL | egrep -o \
|               "[^<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]+"`
| | egrep -v "(^MAIL FROM:|^RCPT TO:|^DATA)" $QUEUEDIR/$EMAIL > \
|               email.tmp
|          /usr/local/exim/bin/exim -f $SENDER -oi -oem -bm $RECIPIENTS < \
|               email.tmp
| done

Interesting, I didn't pay attention to the implications of batch_max and use_bsmtp in the transport you posted earlier. I haven't done this sort of thing, but assuming that the BSMTP file format (ie the RCPT TO: and MAIL FROM: lines) doesn't cause problems with your IMAP server, it should work. An advantage of the BSMTP format is that you can feed it to exim directly, no need to extract the sender & recipients in your script:

...
do
        /usr/local/exim/bin/exim -bS <$QUEUEDIR/$EMAIL
        rm -f $QUEUEDIR/$EMAIL
done

The script would have to run as a trusted user for the sender address to be honored, and there's the possibility of a race between the IMAP server writing a file and the script reading it. There may be other issues as well.


Ah, I understand that now. I will recompile Courier-imap to pass -bS
instead of all the Sendmail arguments and that will take care of that
problem -- no script needed at all!

Thanks to all who have responded.
Craig Jackson


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