[Gllug] Procmail recipe help (oh, and back on topic)

Huw Lynes huw-l at moving-picture.com
Thu Aug 16 16:03:22 UTC 2001


Lee Blackwell wrote:
> 
> Can anyone suggest a solution to the following problem...?
> 
> I collect my mail by POP3 from our Lotus Notes servers (*thats* why I
> use pine.. nuff said).
> 
> The incoming addresses are usually munged by the Notes server, so what
> should be:
> 
> Lee_Blackwell at blah.com
> 
> comes in as:
> 
> Lee_Blackwell/UK/Blah%Blah at Blah.com
> 
> Is there a way to get procmail to substitute the munged part of the
> address?
> 
> I've tried reading the man pages for procmail but it's rather tearse and
> not particularly helpful.
> 
You can invoke formail from with a procmail recipe. This allows all
sorts
of header rewriting, which should allow you to change that address back
to normal. There are lots of resources on www.procmail.org including
tutorials and example files.

HTH

Huw Lynes

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