Procmail issue

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 24 07:34:33 UTC 2013


OK, you do not want things to continue processing. So what I posted will
not solve your problem.

So what you have for rule 1 is:
     not Xforwarded to both kirash4 at gmail.com and ashley at pcraft.com
and not xforwarded to both kirash4 at gmail.com and ashley at pcigrafx.com
and not from          kirash4 at gmail.com
and not to            ashley at papillon.pcraft.__com
	forward to kirash4 at gmail.com

What you have for rule two is the first half of rule 1 to another
recipient:
     not Xforwarded to both kirash4 at gmail.com and ashley at pcraft.com
and not xforwarded to both kirash4 at gmail.com and ashley at pcigrafx.com
	forward to salesdept at wherever


Is this a general rule for all mail coming into the system to any
recipient? Presuming it is then email to george at gmail.com will be
sent off to kirash and processing ends there since it fails all the
conditions and the conditions are anded and inverted.

Mail to kirash will fall through both rules.

Mail from kirash will match the third test which means it's false
when inverted and the mail falls through to the second rule and gets
forwarded to salesdept.

mail to ashley will fall through the first rule and be diverted salesdept
by the second rule.

Mail that has been xforwarded to kirash and ashley (at either address)
passes one of the first two rules which when inverted fails the procmail
rule for both rules 1 and 2 so they simply pass through.

So have account phil at phoo.com send a message to george at pcraft.com
and see what happens. I believe it should pass through. So you'd see
both rules hitting. You can forge a test message and feed it through
procmail to see what happens with the rule.

For testing let's try this set of rules:

:0
* !^X-Forwarded-For: kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com> 
ashley at pcraft.com <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com>
* !^X-Forwarded-For: kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com> 
ashley at pcigrafx.com <mailto:ashley at pcigrafx.com>
* !^From.*kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>
* !^To.*ashley at papillon.pcraft.__com <mailto:ashley at papillon.pcraft.com>
/tmp/foo1

0:
* ^X-Forwarded-For: kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com> 
ashley at pcraft.com <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com>
* ^X-Forwarded-For: kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com> 
ashley at pcigrafx.com <mailto:ashley at pcigrafx.com>
/tmp/foo2

/tmp/foo3

That should sort the mail to three different destinations in /tmp. You
can easily see where the messages go as you try variants without polluting
mail boxes.

I'm wondering about this line in the first rule:
* !^From.*kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>

Is that really what you mean? I presume it is. But if it's not that could
lead to confusing results when you test.

{^_^}

On 2013/01/23 20:15, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> No, the second rule should ONLY process when a message passes the first rule
> (and does NOT get bounced out to gmail.)  I believe, please correct me if I'm
> wrong here, but I believe the way you've rewritten it, rule 2 will ALWAYS run,
> regardless of the outcome of rule 1.  This will result in duplicate message
> being sent to the second e-mail address.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:10 PM, jdow <jdow at earthlink.net
> <mailto:jdow at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>     The basic rule to remember with procmail is that once the email is
>     delivered processing is ended. So if the rule passes you must then
>     clone the email and deliver the clone. That allows the rules to keep
>     on processing.
>
>     I imagine you also want the second rule to continue processing as well.
>
>     Something akin to
>     :0
>     * !^X-Forwarded-For: kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>
>     ashley at pcraft.com <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com>
>
>     * !^X-Forwarded-For: kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>
>     ashley at pcigrafx.com <mailto:ashley at pcigrafx.com>
>     * !^From.*kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>
>     * !^To.*ashley at papillon.pcraft.__com <mailto:ashley at papillon.pcraft.com>
>     {
>              :0 c
>              ! kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>
>     }
>
>     :0c
>
>     * ^X-Forwarded-For: kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>
>     ashley at pcraft.com <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com>
>     * ^X-Forwarded-For: kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>
>     ashley at pcigrafx.com <mailto:ashley at pcigrafx.com>
>     {
>              :0 c
>              ! salesdept
>     }
>
>     {^_^}
>
>
>     On 2013/01/23 20:00, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>
>         The way this should work is as follows:
>
>         - new e-mail arrives at the recipient's box and procmail picks it up and
>         checks
>         the X-Forward-For header
>         - if the header does NOT contain any of those listed, it forwards the
>         message to
>         the specified gmail address
>             > STOP <
>
>         - if the header exists and contains any of the matches listed, the
>         message gets
>         dropped into the recipient's inbox
>         AND
>         - it is at this point that I want it to also forward a copy of said
>         message to
>         the second e-mail address
>
>
>         The first rule works as expected.  Message comes in, first rule checks
>         it and
>         upon failing, bounces back out to gmail.  Nothing happens after that.
>           When the
>         message returns, it passes the first rule and gets dropped in the
>         recipient's
>         box.  When I added the second rule, nothing changed.  The first keeps
>         running as
>         is and the second is simply ignored.
>
>         Now, perhaps I'm wrong in thinking that when it comes back and passes
>         the first
>         rule, it will also run through the second rule.  Is this a case where I
>         need to
>         write things wrapped in a nest?  Sort of like an IF .. THEN .. ELSE?
>
>         A
>
>
>
>         On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:50 PM, jdow <jdow at earthlink.net
>         <mailto:jdow at earthlink.net>
>         <mailto:jdow at earthlink.net <mailto:jdow at earthlink.net>>> wrote:
>
>              On 2013/01/23 15:28, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>
>                  Ok, I'm still trying to figure this out.  On the new, test
>         account, i
>                  can get it
>                  to log so I just need to figure out the other two.  However, I
>         recreated the
>                  same recipe on the test account and what I'm seeing in the log
>         is the
>                  first part
>                  of the recipe only, it doesn't seem to do anything with the
>         second part.
>
>                  So this (adjusted for the test account):
>
>                  LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail
>                  VERBOSE=yes
>
>                  :0
>                  * !^X-Forwarded-For: kirash4 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com> <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>>
>                  <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>>>
>         mytest at pcigrafx.com <mailto:mytest at pcigrafx.com>
>         <mailto:mytest at pcigrafx.com <mailto:mytest at pcigrafx.com>>
>                  <mailto:ashley at pcigrafx.com <mailto:ashley at pcigrafx.com>
>         <mailto:ashley at pcigrafx.com <mailto:ashley at pcigrafx.com>>>
>
>                  * !^X-Forwarded-For: kirash4 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com> <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>>
>                  <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>>>
>         mytest at pcraft.com <mailto:mytest at pcraft.com> <mailto:mytest at pcraft.com
>         <mailto:mytest at pcraft.com>> <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com
>         <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com>
>
>                  <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com>>>
>                  * !^From.*kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>>
>                  <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>>>
>                  * !^To.*mytest at papillon.pcraft.____com
>         <mailto:mytest at papillon.__pcraft.com <mailto:mytest at papillon.pcraft.com>>
>                  <mailto:ashley at papillon.
>         <mailto:ashley at papillon.>__pcra__ft.com <http://pcraft.com>
>         <mailto:ashley at papillon.__pcraft.com <mailto:ashley at papillon.pcraft.com>>>
>                  ! kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>>
>         <mailto:ashley at gmail.com <mailto:ashley at gmail.com>
>
>                  <mailto:ashley at gmail.com <mailto:ashley at gmail.com>>>
>
>                  :0c
>                  * ^X-Forwarded-For: kirash4 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com> <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>>
>                  <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>>>
>         mytest at pcigrafx.com <mailto:mytest at pcigrafx.com>
>         <mailto:mytest at pcigrafx.com <mailto:mytest at pcigrafx.com>>
>                  <mailto:ashley at pcigrafx.com <mailto:ashley at pcigrafx.com>
>         <mailto:ashley at pcigrafx.com <mailto:ashley at pcigrafx.com>>>
>
>                  * ^X-Forwarded-For: kirash4 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com> <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>>
>                  <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com <mailto:kirash4 at gmail.com>>>
>         mytest at pcraft.com <mailto:mytest at pcraft.com> <mailto:mytest at pcraft.com
>         <mailto:mytest at pcraft.com>> <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com
>         <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com>
>
>                  <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com <mailto:ashley at pcraft.com>>>
>                  ! salesdept at pcraft.com <mailto:salesdept at pcraft.com>
>         <mailto:salesdept at pcraft.com <mailto:salesdept at pcraft.com>>
>                  <mailto:salesdept at pcraft.com <mailto:salesdept at pcraft.com>
>         <mailto:salesdept at pcraft.com <mailto:salesdept at pcraft.com>>>
>
>
>
>              Ashley, it might pay to explicitly say, in words, what you think you
>              want to do if the first rule passes, if the first rule does not pass
>              and the second rule passes, and if neither rule passes.
>
>              As it is your description of passing the first rule is the correct
>              action for what you've developed as a rule. You have delivered the
>              email and rule processing ceases at that point. So you might have
>              to clone the output of the first rule to pass it to the second rule
>              IF that is the action you want based on your disappointment at these
>              rules doing what you told them to do.
>
>              {^_^}
>
>
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