Questions tagged [procmail]
Procmail is a powerful Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) capable of sorting and filtering mail based on rulesets called recipes. It's rather *nix-centric, terse, mature, and proven. However, it is now unmaintained.
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Is it possible to clean up this procmail filtering a little
I have this procmail filter which seems to work, but which I'm really not proud of. I'm convinced that we can do much more optimized and clean with nested sections, but I can't achieve any functional ...
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Conditionally forwarding incoming mail to a different address
I have a task at hand that would involve grabbing incoming mail from an IMAPS server (Google Workspace), and then redirecting it to another address (for ingesting attachments from emails).
Sadly, I ...
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Postfix should tempfail mail back to queue when local delivery fails
I'm running postfix on Debian 11, together with procmail as lda. Some users have a ~/.procmailrc which calls an external program, parsing the mail and doing things accordingly. This works as expected, ...
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Why is procmail saving my emails with a format like .{x}AA1?
I'm simply trying to save all incoming emails to a folder so that I can have a watchdog script comb through and parse the attachments in various ways as changes happen to the folder. We'll call this ...
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procmail's logging helped me get one account's .procmailrc working, but two other accounts don't work and don't log); having difficulty diagnosing
As a site that has a number of users who are "technologically challenged", and as the system mangler, it's fallen on me to solve the spam problem for us all. So, SpamAssassin's doing a fine ...
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Is it possible to redirect (not forward) email in procmail?
I am using the following rule to forward email in .procmailrc
# in .procmailrc
* ^Subject.*something
! [email protected]
The filtering and forwarding part works as intended. However, the email ...
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How do i pass virtual usernames from postfix to procmail?
I'm trying to move spam mails to the junk folder automatically with a procmailrc file. Right now I've got postfix running with virtualmail, storing mailbox-settings etc in mysql:
virtual_alias_maps = ...
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Procmail on Postfix - delivering Email to Inbox
I have setup a Postfix mail server, and my goal was to pipe incoming emails to a script. I did this via Procmail. The script is getting run without any issues.
my issue is: I want to deliver a copy of ...
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Procmail autoresponse to a single sender (or few ones)
I've been looking some similar examples and slight changes to them to perform that but unsuccessfully.
This is the first recipe at $HOME/.procmailrc of the user "me".
Mail is received by ...
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How to filter and deliver a message in Procmail
I rewrite the subject line for certain incoming mails depending on TO: field:
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* ! ^TO_user@domain\.com\>
* ^TO_[^<>@ ]+@domain\.com\>
* ^Subject:\/.+
| /usr/local/bin/formail -I"...
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procmail rewrite subject line if email recipient user fails match test
I have a local procmail user "bob".
If an email arrives and matches [email protected], then no action should be taken.
However, if an email arrives and is [anything_else]@domain.com then I ...
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Procmail not bouncing emails
I have a catch-all email address for my domain, however I want to block certain addresses from receiving mail. Before, I was doing it like this:
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* ^(X-Original-To): [email protected]
/dev/null
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Can Procmail be configured to get rid of mail after it is passed to a script?
I have Postfix installed and configured to pass mail to Procmail. I have Procmail configured to pass the email to a Python script. I also notice that Procmail is placing a copy of the same email into ...
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How to pass original recipient by Postfix to Procmail
Is there a way to identify the original recipient of the email, in procmail and not via header?
The recipient can be in Bcc and can also be in one of the To / Cc and I am looking for how to get the ...
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have postfix bounce all but procmail related non-delivery notification
Pardon me for reposting on serverfault; I mistakenly posted it originally on stackoverflow before, and was kindly reminded to post here.....
Problem: I experience every now and then non-delivery ...
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Procmail recipe - If no dkim signature then forward to .spam
Having read through the documentation at http://pm-doc.sourceforge.net/doc/
i cannot find an answer.
I want to use procmail to place mail without dkim into user's spam folder. I have found many ...
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Log INCOMING mail to server
I have a mailbox on my server, mailbot, that is working fine. Mail to [email protected] works and per the procmailrc file, sends back an autoresponder text file.
But I should be able to send to ...
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smrsh cannot stat procmailrc
I am attempting to use procmail to route email for virtual users into different folders (specifically, I want to deliver to a user's spam folder if spam assassin assigns a high score). The MTA is ...
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procmailrc recipe: turn on VERBOSE conditionally? [closed]
I would like a recipe for my procmailrc file to turn on VERBOSE only if an e-mail came in from one (and only one) particular e-mail address. My procmail spam filter is way too long (and old) and ...
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Why this email wasn't delivered by Postfix/Dovecot/Procmail?
During that day sender sent four other emails after this one. All of them were delivered as usual.
These are the lines of maillog corresponding to that email that was not delivered to recipient.
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Procmail not execute shell command
i need launch a script when receive an email with specific subject, i've try fetchmail + procmail, this my configuration
.fetchmailrc
set no bouncemail
defaults:
antispam -1
batchlimit 100
poll ...
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How do you match a forwarded gmail address with procmail
When Gmail forwards an email to an external address, it apparently inserts the forwarded address into the FROM line. So an email being forwarded to user[email protected] by [email protected] becomes:
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Procmail variables and recipe syntax
I'm trying to understand the procmailrc syntax. From documentation that I've read, I can set my own variables using VARNAME=value and then use them elsewhere by refering to $VARNAME
I also understand ...
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emails from specific user folder to be zipped and forwarded to an external mailbox
What I'm trying to do is to forward all the emails that are stored (moved) into a specific user folder to a predefined email address
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Any new email stored in /home/mycooluser/mail/spam-mail to ...
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What is the purpose of -a "$EXTENSION" in the procmail / postfix integration?
The suggested integration method for procmail into postfix recommends the following:
mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
All it says about $EXTENSION is
EXTENSION
The ...
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Setup a mail server on debian ONLY to redirect them to a parser script [closed]
I have a server (example.com) running on Debian that is not configured to receive emails (or at least I've never done any effort to do so). From what I understand I just need to create an MX DNS entry ...
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Is it safe to use procmail in 2017?
I just discovered that procmail website (http://www.procmail.org/) is down. I did some research about its status and it appears that the development of procmail has been dead since 2001. Even the old ...
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Procmail recipe, mail owned by root
I'm using a combination of Postfix and Procmail to handle inbound email on one of my servers. Each user has a local account and I've been using the below /usr/local/etc/procmailrc successfully for ...
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Dovecot/sendmail migration from system to virtual users
I have a production mailing system in place.
The initial setup was done with system users. Each domain has a system user and in the end all mail to the same domain goes to the same account (and later ...
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How can I setup Procmail to run a script from email subject
I'm setting up a website that allows users fill a form which sends an email to a server. The subject of the email is generated as a server script that I would like to run on the server command line in ...
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Permission difficulties with NFS-mounted /var/spool/mail for dovecot and procmail
My mail server setup worked for years. Recently I've started experiencing the following problem:
Mail setup: sendmail+dovecot+procmail
Host file server: CentOS 6.8, NFS exports mail directories to......
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Filter mail recipient by alias matching with sender's domain
I use an alias for each company that I provide an e-mail contact. So, for example, in /etc/aliases
somecompany: myuser
The address I supply to SomeCompany would be [email protected]
If the ...
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procmail insists in writing to /var/mail in macOS Sierra
I'm trying to configure fetchmail and procmail with a Google account. This is my $HOME/.fetchmailrc:
poll imap.gmail.com protocol IMAP
user "<email>" is jviotti here
password '<...
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procmailrc - change email subject
I want to change subject for all subscription list emails by adding [BULK] to its.
Looks like global /etc/procmailrc file is the best place to do it.
But this filter also drops all headers for some ...
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Procmail Filtering From and Body
I have a script generated e-mail which comes in hourly. I do not need to see it except under certain conditions, and so I just want it filtered to its own mailbox. The message comes from cron, and I ...
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How to avoid getting matched by FROM_DAEMON on promail?
An admin of a service, which is primarily email based, complained that mails from my self-hosted email server gets matched by FROM_DAEMON on their procmail setup which ends up throwing away my emails.
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Was Procmail's "dropped F" bug ever fixed? If so, when?
For well over a decade, SpamAssassin has provided a sample procmailrc file that includes the following workaround for a Procmail bug:
# Work around procmail bug: any output on stderr will cause the "...
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Procmail seems not being executed when fetching emails with fetchmail
I have the following problem:
I got a new working PC (Debian testing, codenme: stretch) recently and had to reinstall fetchmail and procmail in order to read my emails with mutt.
Now, fetchmail works ...
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Sendmail/dovecot/procmail: Maildir permissions
I've just spent several hours in the middle of the night trying to migrate a Maildir setup from Centos 5.6 to Centos 7.2. I found dozens of hits on how to do this, all completely useless - a few gave ...
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Procmail rules with regexp
here are my procmail recipes:
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* ^Subject: [JIRA] (EDRV-*) *$
.JIRA.edrive/new
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* ^Subject: [SPAM] *$
.SPAM/new
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* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
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I want to put my messages with [...
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dovecot /usr/lib/dovecot/deliver fails only for root
After upgrading Ubuntu from 14.04 to 16.04, I can no longer use dovecot's deliver program in procmail for system deliveries as root, because it claims it cannot open the auth-userdb file, even though ...
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Is it possible to reject certain emails in procmail? [In SMTP session rejects based on email content]
Let's assume a typical setup where procmail is called from sendmail to filter incoming emails into correct mailboxes. Is that done while the incoming SMTP connection to sendmail is still active or is ...
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IMAP server can't read (open) mails using fetchmail, procmail & dovecot
I'm trying to setup a mail server !
Everything seems to be ok (after some loooong days) but when I tried to read mail with IMAP server :
Apr 18 17:38:48 sd-84941 dovecot: imap(dlp): Error: open(/...
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Where does an unconfigured procmail put incoming mails?
When restarting my postfix with a slightly wrong config, a few mails that were waiting in the mail-queue were apparently delivered via procmail
mail.log.0:Dec 26 00:53:38 h2229778 postfix/local[27243]...
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Email, forwarded by procmail, rejected by Gmail
EDIT
Let's ignore for a while all that I have written below and refrase the question:
If you have your own domain name and you want to get email for that domain into your Gmail inbox (not Google Apps)...
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Procmail and thunderbird: folder/maildir created with root as owner
I have a mailserver configured(spamassassin+procmail+sendmail+dovecot)
I want all spam mails redirected to spam folder
I set /etc/procmail
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME/new
ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/...
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rt-mailgate not making tickets with fetchmail and procmail
I'm trying to use my mail so that any mail sent to [email protected] are turned into tickets by RT4.
The process currently breaks down in the send mail step. My server is running fetchmail. The ...
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Emails corrupt and a winmail.dat file attachment added for only one mail box
I have one mailbox that's receiving emails from a particular company who use Outlook and all emails sent to that one address are stripped of their proper structure and a winmail.dat file is attached.
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Sane Spam Strategy [closed]
Right now I'm using spamd to score spam and then procmail to put it in user's .Spam Maildir folder and then manually running sa-learn on .LearnAsSpam and .LearnAsHam and then also manually just ...
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Comparison of methods to send Postfix emails to Procmail
I want to begin using Procmail in order to perform filtering on specific accounts in virtual domains as received by Postfix on my Centos 7 server. In various articles it seems that there are two ...
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