Sorry about that ... The idea of "virtual" anything confuses me every once in a while
Thanks for the help -- Thank you, Dean Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting Tanner Lovelace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dean Price said the following on 5/16/04 9:09 AM: > > Would that work with virtual users.... > > > > I have a default username for the account (dprice) and then several > virtual > > username (the actuall email accounts)(deano, cathy) > > > > It just seems to me that if I use the dprice in that line that it would > look for > > .procmailrc in the /home/dprice directory... but if it doesn't match > anything > > in .procmail where would the mail go at that point? > > > > Maybe I am over thinking the process but I don't want to lose any mail > either. > > > > Would I be able to use the virtual usernames in its place... I wouldn't > think so > > because procmail wouldn't know where to find its .procmailrc file. > > > > > > If you notice, the place where I said to put your username in the procmail > recipe is preceded by a #. That's the shell comment. So, it doesn't > really matter what's there, as long as it's unique. See the web page I > mentioned: (specifically, this paragraph) > > "The #youruserid which trails the formail syntax is intended to ensure that > each > .forward in a system is sufficiently unique (without it, your .forward and > dozens of other users may actually be identical). If each .forward isn't > unique, > it is actually possible that some MTAs will optimize the duplicate > invocations > (normally expecting an address list) and discard some. While you shouldn't > necessarily care whether some other sod on your server loses his mail > because > he's doing things improperly, YOU don't want that to happen to YOUR mail, so > be > sure to put your own userid there." > > Now, as far as virtual users are concerned, to procmail, that's just another > header (or form of a header). If you can match it with a regular expression > you can handle it however you want. > > Cheers, > Tanner > > -- > Tanner Lovelace | Don't move! Or I'll fill ya full of... little > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | yellow bolts of light! - Commander John Crichton > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
