Phil, thank you so much - that was exactly what I was missing (adding the 
"envelope_to_add" option to the "address_pipe" transport). Much appreciated!


On Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 02:40 , Phil Pennock wrote:

> On 2011-07-22 at 14:02 -0600, Kirk Friggstad wrote:
> > Everything works pretty much as expected - incoming mail gets saved in the 
> > mailattachments directory, and the perl script fires and gets the entire 
> > message on STDIN with no problems. However, I haven't been able to find how 
> > to find out the original address the message is sent to. In the saved copy, 
> > there is an additional header called "Envelope-to" that contains the 
> > original address, but this header doesn't appear to exist in the message as 
> > delivered to STDIN. I haven't been able to find the original address in any 
> > of the environment variables, and none of the string expansions that I've 
> > tried seems to have it either. I can't rely on the "To:" field either, as 
> > most of the messages are being forwarded from another account on another 
> > mail server.
> 
> Find the "address_pipe" Transport definition; either change it, or copy
> it to a new name and change the value of "pipe_transport" on the
> "userforward" Router to reference the new name.
> 
> Look at the "address_file" Transport, see the "envelope_to_add" option?
> That's what you want on the pipe transport used by this filter setup.
> 
> > First question - is there a simple string expansion or some other place 
> > that I can pass the envelope-to information to the pipe script (as a 
> > command-line argument, etc.)? 
> 
> Loosely, you construct from $local_part@$domain -- but you might want
> the $original_* variants, might want to deal with affices, etc. I
> suspect that just setting envelope_to_add on the relevant pipe transport
> does everything you really want.
> 
> > Second question - is there a better way to get all mail for a particular 
> > domain to feed through a custom script (that will also be able to pass 
> > along the envelope-to information) besides what I'm doing (catch-all to 
> > local account, .forward with pipe)?
> 
> "Better" is a matter of taste. Custom Routers, with "unseen", etc. If
> you understand what your current setup does then that's better than a
> setup you have to study to understand, so probably best to stick with
> what you have.
> 
> -Phil



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