Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:29:58AM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
For details, please read my original posting. Here's the situation in
brief:
Deliver local mail to users in such a way that they can run their
procmail recipes. For e.g., if a user gets all the mail about cron jobs,
he should be able to direct that into the =inbox.cron folder.
I found the solution! Procmail was generating the From envelope
header that cyrdeliver finds inacceptable! It seems if you call procmail
from exim, it runs in an explicit delivery mode (whatever that means)
and adds the From header to the incoming email. My solution is really
simple. I used formail to get rid of the From header like so:
--~/.procmailrc (begin)-
SHELL=/bin/sh
DELIVERMAIL=/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver
LOGFILE=$HOME/.maillog
IMAP=$DELIVERMAIL -a andy -q -m user.andy
LOGABSTRACT=all
VERBOSE=on
#Remove the From header if it exists! Pass on the email to the other
#filters.
:0 fw
| /usr/bin/formail -I 'From ' -b
--~/.procmailrc (end)-
Exim is configured in the following manner:
-/etc/exim/exim.conf (begin)---
##
# TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION #
##
# ORDER DOES NOT MATTER#
# Only one appropriate transport is called for each delivery.#
##
# This transport is used for local delivery to user mailboxes.
local_delivery:
driver = pipe
command = /usr/sbin/cyrdeliver ${local_part}
return_path_add = true
return_output
prefix =
user = cyrus
# This transport is used for procmail
procmail_pipe:
driver = pipe
command = /usr/bin/procmail
return_path_add
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
# check_string = From
# escape_string = From
# suffix =
user = $local_part
group = mail
##
# DIRECTORS CONFIGURATION #
# Specifies how local addresses are handled #
##
# ORDER DOES MATTER #
# A local address is passed to each in turn until it is accepted. #
##
# This director runs procmail for users who have a .procmailrc file
procmail:
driver = localuser
transport = procmail_pipe
require_files = ${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail
no_verify
# This director matches local user mailboxes. Since procmail does all
# delivery, it is never used.
localuser:
driver = localuser
transport = local_delivery
end
-/etc/exim/exim.conf (end)-
Please keep in mind that the above two illustrations are abridged
versions.
I am surprised that nobody else has faced this problem. It's hard to
imagine that I am the only one wanting to use Cyrus IMAP and sort all
the email into their various folders using procmail. Are there more
elegant solutions out there?
-Andy
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Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail
Andy Saxena wrote: On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:45:48AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Actually, I just use fetchmail to download from my ISP's POP3 store to my local Cyrus IMAP server (via procmail). So your situation is completely different. I don't see how you could use fetchmail to do what you are wanting to do. What happens if you run cyrdeliver manually while logged on as the 'mail' user (assuming your exim is running as that)? You might have some kind of permissions problem. fetchmail is running as root for me, so that's might be why it works for me, but not in the context of exim for you. Looks like there's a great deal of misunderstanding/ miscommunication about what I am trying to achieve. For details, please read my original posting. Here's the situation in brief: Deliver local mail to users in such a way that they can run their procmail recipes. For e.g., if a user gets all the mail about cron jobs, he should be able to direct that into the =inbox.cron folder. Well, I don't see what I'm misunderstanding. My points were * When one of your users sends a mail, it's going to exim. At that point, exim needs to deliver it, and fetchmail really can't (well, shouldn't) get involved - cyrdeliver, as you are doing, seems the proper thing to do. Therefore, I mentioned that my setup, where I use fetchmail, because I want to download mail from a POP account, won't work (well, isn't the best way) for you. * Since cyrdeliver is running under exim's user (mail) for you, and either under root or the recipient's user for me, your problems may stem from permissions, and you need to see what happens if you try doing the delivery under a different username. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail
Andy Saxena wrote: On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:58:01AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: You might want to try this. I don't know if it makes any difference or not, but cyrdeliver is picky and not well documented, and I notice that I always use the userid argument, and it works. It's a different situation, though; I'm using fetchmail for my needs. IMAP=$DELIVERMAIL -a andy -q -m andy andy No dice. It won't work. By the way, the setup works for me when I get email from the ISP using fetchmail and deliver it to Cyrus using the same procmail recipe. You use fetchmail for local delivery from user A to user B? Could you please share your Exim and fetchmail setup? Actually, I just use fetchmail to download from my ISP's POP3 store to my local Cyrus IMAP server (via procmail). So your situation is completely different. I don't see how you could use fetchmail to do what you are wanting to do. What happens if you run cyrdeliver manually while logged on as the 'mail' user (assuming your exim is running as that)? You might have some kind of permissions problem. fetchmail is running as root for me, so that's might be why it works for me, but not in the context of exim for you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail
Keith G. Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: Actually, I just use fetchmail to download from my ISP's POP3 store to my local Cyrus IMAP server (via procmail). I've been using this app for years, always stable, very flexible, easy to configure, I ditched cooking recipes when I found this: getmail, A POP3 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and mbox delivery http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-2.0/ Run it from a cron job, it does its thing, then you can invoke a script written in your favorite language (or shell...), or even customize the Python code directly, to do exactly what you want (unless I misunderstood your requirements). -- That's angle as in geometry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail
Andy Saxena wrote: Hi, I tried under a different subject heading that may have been misleading. So here goes another try: I am trying to use procmail for local delivery. My setup consists of exim and cyrus from sid. Calling the localuser director before procmail I am easily able to deliver local email to myself. However, if I call the procmail director before localuser, the delivery fails. ---~/.procmailrc (end)-- SHELL=/bin/sh DELIVERMAIL=/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver LOGFILE=$HOME/.maillog IMAP=$DELIVERMAIL -a andy -q -m andy LOGABSTRACT=all VERBOSE=on You might want to try this. I don't know if it makes any difference or not, but cyrdeliver is picky and not well documented, and I notice that I always use the userid argument, and it works. It's a different situation, though; I'm using fetchmail for my needs. IMAP=$DELIVERMAIL -a andy -q -m andy andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorting locally delivered email using Procmail
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:58:01AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Andy Saxena wrote: Hi, I am trying to use procmail for local delivery. My setup consists of exim and cyrus from sid. SHELL=/bin/sh DELIVERMAIL=/usr/sbin/cyrdeliver LOGFILE=$HOME/.maillog IMAP=$DELIVERMAIL -a andy -q -m andy LOGABSTRACT=all VERBOSE=on You might want to try this. I don't know if it makes any difference or not, but cyrdeliver is picky and not well documented, and I notice that I always use the userid argument, and it works. It's a different situation, though; I'm using fetchmail for my needs. IMAP=$DELIVERMAIL -a andy -q -m andy andy No dice. It won't work. By the way, the setup works for me when I get email from the ISP using fetchmail and deliver it to Cyrus using the same procmail recipe. You use fetchmail for local delivery from user A to user B? Could you please share your Exim and fetchmail setup? Personally, I think the the problem is in trying to use Exim to deliver directly to Procmail. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
