I'm trying to make a Perl program that is called by the .qmail file for a
single account but recieves messages for several extension addresses. To
clarify, a single account, bob, will be recieving for bob-john, bob-jill, etc.
This program is supposed to database certain parts of the message, namely the
message body, the date the message was recieved, and the recipients. The most
important part of this is the recipient. These messages are support emails
going out to customers from an exchange (ugh!) server that will be Bcc'd to the
bob-whatever address. Like I said, the most important piece of information that
we need to get from the email is the bob-whatever address the message was Bcc'd
to, but the rest of the data is still extremely desireable. I would prefer to
not have to write a program that I have to edit a single line of every time we
add a bob-whatever address, and the messages can only be sent to us via Bcc.
The way I understand qmail-command is that by the time the message gets sent
through whatever program the .qmail file calls, the envelope is gone, so
discerning the bob-whatever from there is not an option. And, as we all know,
Bcc doesn't show in headers, otherwise it would fall into the category of
'pointless features'. The best that I got is that I put an alias into ~alias
for each bob-whatever user that calls the Perl program with the whatever from
bob-whatever as an arguement, that I later access through @ARGV.
Any thoughts (that lead to a logical solution) are greatly appreciated here.
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Matthew H Patterson
Unix Systems Administrator
National Support Center, LLC
Naperville, Illinois, USA
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