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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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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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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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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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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procmail recipe to forward email is rejected by recipient
This is the first time using procmail and I've got the following recipe,
SENDMAIL=/opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/sendmail
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:.
MAILDIR=/opt/zimbra/procmail/
DEFAULT=$...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Procmail multipart message / content type
I have a procmailrc file that is collecting some variables from mail headers, then echo'ing those variables into the message body. Like this:
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| echo Subject_ "${SUBJECT_}" ; echo From_ "${...
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Move spam from dovecot public folders
I have set up Dovecot with public folders on a CentOS 6-server, with sendmail and spamassassin. I'm getting a lot of spam in both public folders and in the users inboxes.
I want spamassassin / ...
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Easiest way to call script for incoming email
On a Ubuntu server, what's the easiest way to run a script (e.g. Python) when an email is received?
Email filters would be good, but not necessary.
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Organize Email by Date Using procmail
I would like to organize all incoming email into the following directory structure based on the date of the email:
ROOT --+-- YYYYMMDD --+-- HH --+-- mm --+-- YYYYMMDD-HHmmSS-000001
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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 Postfix issue
Our server is using CENTOS uses postfix:
Nov 1 11:31:52 webserver postfix/smtpd[30424]: 822A91872F: client=unknown[5.133.168.42], sasl_method=PLAIN, [email protected]
Nov 1 11:31:...
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