Please reply to list. This reply is to list... On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Richard B. Emerson wrote: : Actually, the example note has To: bab...@yahoogroups.com not To: : ch...@pinefields.com...
The To header is irrelevant. Mail to this list is addressed "To:" the list. But the *envelope* (which is captured in your system as a header "Delivered-To:" is the real recipient. : ... The intent of the recipe below is to take a message containing : Delivered-To: and send it to the addressee in that header entry. The 'Delivered-To' means it is ALREADY being delivered to that address! Your MTA (sendmail) should have invoked procmail on behalf of the 'Delivered-To' user. And this should *not* depend on the "To:" header in any way.... : "if X-Loop:..." is present, don't forward the It should keep a : forwarding loop from forming. Why this isn't the case is part of my : problem. Unless the forwarding loop is occurring *outside* of procmail! : Why am I using sendmail? Because that's the way it was set up with SuSE : Linux 11.1, which is what I'm running here. No, no, why are you SENDING the mail you just received, rather than delivering it directly to the recipient's mailbox? IE: :0 *(conditions) $USER/inbox : Again, keep in mind that however strange things may have been here (with : sendmail and procmail), until very recently, it all worked as it should. Any time I encounter *this* condition, I always ask, "what changed?" Look in your logs for *anything* being updated around that time. Remember it is the recipient's shell invoked for things like 'formail', so even if you changed permissions or the 'path' for a user shell, it could have an impact... ANYTHING that changed.... - C
