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Subject: Re: Procmail + Postfix + Cyrus woes.
From: Dylan Griffiths (Dylan_Gbigfoot.com)
Date: Sun Mar 26 2000 - 12:17:53 CST

Khetan Gajjar wrote:
> Around Yesterday, "Dylan Griffiths" wrote :
> Not an issue - amend
> forward_path = $home/.forward${recipient_delimiter}${extension},$home/.forward
> to include something like /var/mail/redirects/$user
> and then create /var/mail/redirects/khetan containing forwarding
> for user khetan.

How is it now an issue? I can't create a /home/some-mail-user/.forward when
no UID is associated with that user name. There are very few entries in
/etc/passwd.

Besides, I already store per-user procmail recipes in
/home/cyrus/procmail.$USER
 
> Uh, then why bother ? It means you'll be calling procmail (a
> relatively expensive process) for nothing. Rather call it only
> when it's required.

Because I want system wide mail filtering around which I can have a wrapper
to let people build recipes quickly. I personally don't mind because the
system doesn't have very heavy traffic at the moment.
 
> The other way to do this is to have procmail as your local
> delivery agent (and not cyrus), and have a /etc/procmailrc
> which delivers locally - an example was posted to this list
> a while back.

This is what I have almost working now. Except that when I set procmail as
the LDA, mail is silently eaten instead of delivered. When I test it by
invoking procmail how I think postfix is invoking it, it works fine.

I did more digging into the archives.
http://www.egroups.com/group/postfix-users/9712.html?
Causes my mail (ALL mail) to be added to /var/spool/mail/cyrus instead of
delivered. I do not know why. I have my /home/cyrus/procmail.common to
default to delivering to the inbox.

At this point, I'm tempted to write a perl script for mail filtering. 

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