On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 12:42:23PM -0700, Steve Williams wrote: > > Hi Gilles, > > Thanks very much for the reply.?? I had looked in for some kind of flag that > could be set in the procmail config file... I never thought it would be a > command line argument to procmail :(?? I cannot believe I missed that. > > I had even downloaded the smtpd source and saw that mail.local could only > write to a file (not a stream)... and that's the only place in the source > code where a "From " was written so I knew it wasn't going to be a smtpd > configuration change. > > Do you think a hint about the behaviour change might be worth a mention in > the smptd.conf (5) man page??? I've been trying to come up with some > non-procmail specific wording...I am not happy with the following wording, > but something along these lines to give a clue that piping to a program > won't have the same effect as writing to a physical file. > > ???????????????????????? mbox?????? Deliver the message to the user's mbox > with > ???????????????????????????????????????? mail.local(8).?? mbox format is > only honoured if final delivery is a file and not a program. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >
this isn't accurate, smtpd(8) doesn't write to a file. smtpd doesn't know about an "mbox format", what it does is that it calls mail.local(8) which is an mda that should really be called mail.mbox and which itself writes to a file in mbox format. I don't think its necessary to document this behaviour in smtpd.conf(5), procmail is the only case I know where you may forget to pass the option and be bit, which leads to threads like this where i'm given a chance to discourage you from using procmail. k > Thanks for the heads up about fdm.?? I'll have a look at it. > > Also, thanks for such an amazingly simple email program to configure.?? I > have spent so many hours over the years researching (scratching my head) how > to configure sendmail!?? A 4 line config file to have a functioning email > configuration is pretty staggering! > Cheers :-) -- Gilles Chehade @poolpOrg https://www.poolp.org tip me: https://paypal.me/poolpOrg
