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 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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Is there a way to filter mails in remote IMAP account?
Situation:
mail server with IMAP only access.
Problem:
I want to be able to filter mails (put some mails to various folders, mark them as read and so on).
Most new email clients have this ability, ...
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Store and forward mail but change FROM header in forwarded mail
I need a procmail recipe which stores the mail and forwards it to another address.
The following works fine:
:0c
! [email protected]
But..now I need to change the From: header in the mails that ...
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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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Setting up procmail to ignore auto-responders and bounces
I'm using procmail to receive email messages and then forward them on to a script for handling. Sometimes this will even mean generating an email (for example, forwarding the message to another user, ...
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How to make clamassassin prepend the X-Virus-* headers instead of appending them?
The email virus filter wrapper for ClamAV, clamassassin, appends its headers to the message headers.
X-Virus-Status: No
X-Virus-Checker-Version: clamassassin 1.2.4 with clamscan / ClamAV 1.0.3/27134/...
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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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Setting up Procmail Filtering for Spam on Postfix/Courier+MySQL Virtual Users
I've been searching for a resource on how to do this but not having much luck.
I am running a working MTA/MUA that is based on Postfix and Courier with MySQL as a backend for virtual users. I based ...
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how to configure postfix to send local mail to another local server?
I have a pair of mail servers that are comprised mainly of Postfix, Procmail and Cyrus-IMAP and they both work fine. The IMAP servers are configured in a simple master/replica pair. All 'normal' mail ...
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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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Change allowed mail size quota
The email server on my ubuntu machine can only receive mails up to 10 megabytes in size.
I would like to change that value, but I'm so blind I can't figure out where to change it.
Could not be ...
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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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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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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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Best Practical RT, sorting email into queues automatically using procmail
I'm trying to get incoming e-mail to automatically go directly into whichever queue/ticket they are related to or create a new one if none exist and the right queue e-mail setup in the web interface ...
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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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Postfix + procmail - delivery fails because "can't create user output file" - on CentOS 6.2
I verified that my postfix installation / relaying setup worked. Now I am having trouble with procmail. I have it wired to postfix with the following command:
mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -f -...
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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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fetchmail/sendmail/procmail alternative
is there a program out there that can download mail from an imap account to a local machine for local reading with a program like mutt? I'm finding the whole fetchmail/sendmail/procmail pipeline setup ...
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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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Postfix - don't generate "unknown user" bounces if message is Spam
We receive a a lot of spam addressed to (random) non-existing users. This causes postfix to generate "unknown user" bounces to the fake sender.
As a workaround I use a catch-all to redirect any mail ...
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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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How to create default subfolders using procmail with Maildir (and postfix) that work with MUA's?
I have a procmail setup and want to have a Spam folder that works with MUA's.
I found this tutorial http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-move-spam-mail-to-spam-folder/ but it doesn't work as ...
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Procmail script for autoreplier with constraints
How would I set up procmail so it replies to all emails with a standard message, provided the emails:
Have the word "AAA" in the subject
Have the word "BBB" in the text
Do not have the words "CCC" or ...
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Spam daily report on servers using sendmail
we'd like to implement a daily spam report to our users like Dreamhost does.
Basically we need to send a daily mail (at midnight for example) to inform a single user of all the emails currently in his ...
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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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Need linux milter solution to log email body into database
We exchange emails with various clients and vendors. I am trying to implement a solution where all the email communications between our rep and the client or vendor is saved in our database so in our ...
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Decrypt incoming pgp mail with procmail
Currently I have a running Postfix server which delivers incoming mail through procmail. That works fine but now I want to decrypt any incoming mail which is encrypted with pgp automatically. So I ...
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How to enable maildir in Dovecot deliver with Sendmail local_procmail
There is documentation around on how to make /usr/local/bin/procmail work with delivering to a maildir.
However, it is my understanding that it is also possible to avoid procmail altogether, and have ...
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procmail recipe to filter email to multiple folders
Currently my procmail recipes are as below:
FROM_=`formail -c -x"From "| awk '{ print $1 }'`
SUBJ_=`formail -c -x"Subject:" | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'`
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*^Subject:.*(60)
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Postfix .procmailrc mail bounce loops
I tried to search and find similar topics but I couldn't find anything that quite addresses my issue. Basically, I help administer a server for a student group, and most users forward their mail off ...
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Error with procmail script to use Maildir format
I have this code in /etc/procmailrc:
DROPPRIVS=yes
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
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{ }
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{
# Bail out if directory could not be created
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Procmail Filtering From and Body
I have a script generated e-mail which comes in hourly. I do not need to see it except under certain conditions, and so I just want it filtered to its own mailbox. The message comes from cron, and I ...
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Procmail and thunderbird: folder/maildir created with root as owner
I have a mailserver configured(spamassassin+procmail+sendmail+dovecot)
I want all spam mails redirected to spam folder
I set /etc/procmail
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME/new
ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/...
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What's the meaning of suffixes that procmail assigns to mail filenames?
I am running a Postfix server and I would like to know the meaning of suffixes that mail filenames have. For instance:
1338839258.Vfe02I2a6f0M572204.example.com:2,S
1338840057.Vfe02I2a6f1M483134....
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How can I configure procmail to pass an email to a script if (and only if) it's from a whitelisted sender?
I want to pass emails from specific senders to a shell script via procmail.
Here's my original starter script:
LOGFILE=/home/foouser/procmail-log
VERBOSE=yes
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail/foouser
DEFAULT=...
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Procmail variable to command
Maybe stupid question, but I can't find it anywhere. I have a variable in procmail (eg $SUBJECT) and I need to push it to some shell command. Something like:
# in /etc/procmailrc
SUBJECT="^(XX-)?...
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Procmail rules with regexp
here are my procmail recipes:
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* ^Subject: [JIRA] (EDRV-*) *$
.JIRA.edrive/new
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* ^Subject: [SPAM] *$
.SPAM/new
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* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
.SPAM/new
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* .*
new
I want to put my messages with [...
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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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postfix/procmail - preventing duplicate email in procmailrc
I've postfix on my server, I'm using procmail and customized shell script to process incoming emails for one of user accounts on my local domain/machine. ([email protected])
Everything was just working ...
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Zimbra outgoing email forwarding/ redirecting from internal to external domain
How can I automatically forward outgoing emails to a different domain?
As an example, a user sends an email to [email protected] and I want the exact email forwarded outside mydomain.com to ...
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Mutt integration with procmail
I use following procmailrc with fetchmail:
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
VERBOSE=off
LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmaillog
DEFAULT=$HOME/mail/
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail/
# Recipes below this comment:
:0:
* ^(...
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Use procmail to deliver to stdout and a second server
I would like a Postfix server to deliver each message to a certain transport as well as relay to a second server. In master.cf, I have the following transport:
zarafa unix - n n - 10 pipe
flags= ...
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why does forwarding to an external email address with procmail not work?
I am using the following recipe in my .procmailrc file to forward a copy of all email messages to another account:
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! somebodyelse
This works fine. But if I try to use forward to an external ...
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Procmail lock failures and errors while writing
I'm setting up a mail server on an embedded linux system.
When sending mail to a local user I get the following error from procmail:
procmail: Lock failure on "/home/mail/ktos/.mailspool.lock"
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Procmail: Pipe to Program, Otherwise Return Error to Sender
I'm trying to use procmail to send all messages for a certain domain to RT (Request Tracker). This is more of a question about the .procmailrc file, though.
Here's my current .procmailrc file:
#...
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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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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 [email protected] by [email protected] becomes:
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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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