Re: vs. / vs.

[Mark H. Wood]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 06:23:19PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> Procmail is badly outdated, and it's a zombie, unmaintained for many 
> years. I suggest that you consider some other delivery agent. The 
> program fdm looks promising, though I haven't used it.

I'll agree with another poster:  if a thing still works, age is not
sufficient reason to throw it away.

That said:  I used procmail for some years, but switched to maildrop
because I found it quite a bit easier to configure -- and I have a lot
of configuration.  Worth considering if you decide to look around.
Converting the rules was tedious but not terribly difficult.

As someone else noted, sieve is also promising.  I also have not tried
it yet.

I've only just now heard of fdm, so I don't know anything against
it. :-/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fdm_(software)

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Re: vs. / vs.

[Jon LaBadie]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:01:31PM -0600, Jon Brinkmann wrote:

First the background:

I'm forced to use a Microsoft Exchange server for my email.  It's configured
(not by me) to tag SPF incorrectly authorized and other suspect messages
as "Undeliverable". It always attaches the original message with the full
original header as attachment 5.  Here's what the "v" command shows for a
typical message:

I   1 [multipa/alternativ, 7bit, nK]
I   2 [text/plain, quoted, us-ascii, nK]
I   3 [text/html, quoted, us-ascii, nK]
I   4 [message/delivery-s, 7bit, nK]
I   5   [message/rfc822, 7bit, nK]
I   6 [multipa/alternativ, 7bit, nK]
I   7 [text/plain, quoted, iso-8859-1, nK]
I   8 [text/html, quoted, iso-8859-1, nK]

I'm working to extract the original message and send it back through procmail
to be properly sorted into my mailboxes.  I've mapped this process to the
'E' key:

macro index E '5procmail;tail 
procmail.log' 'extract & process a message that Microsoft Exchange called undeliverable'

It works great, with one problem:  doesn't pass the mailbox
delimiting "From [email_address] [message_date]" to procmail, which sorts and
writes what it received to a file that's not recognized as a mailbox by mutt.
Is there some way to tell  to pass the delimiter line?  If not,
should this be a code change request?

FYI, it appears that  and  are identical.  At
least they produce identical results.

I could work around the problem by using  (and it appears
that  and  are also identical) which does pass
the delimiter line.  I'd have to save the attachment to a temporary file,
redirect it to procmail and then delete the file.  I'd prefer not to do this
if possible.

I also realize that  is a simpler operation than .
The latter has to deal with, among other things, a pre-existing file with
older messages, file locking, etc.

Thanks,

Jon

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I sometimes use the program "formail" to add a "From_" line.
It does not seem to pickup the originator from the "From:"
line but from some other entry like "Sender:" or "Return-To:".

Formail can output to stdout or to a specified program.
You might be able to replace "procmail;" in
your macro above with "formail -ds procmail;".

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