[Scottish] procmail - rewrite RHS of email addy

[Colin McKinnon]

Matt Lowe wrote:

>Hi, does anyone know if the following is possible with procmail?
>
>mail comes in and gets passed to procmail
>procmail backs up all mail (this bit i got ok!)
>procmail then rewrites the RHS of the email addy, and sends the message
>onto another domain.
>
>e.g.
>mail sent to matt@testdomain.com
>this gets backed upto a local mbox on the mail server
>mail then gets forwarded to matt@mail-server.net
>(without altering any other headers/message body!)
>Sendmail can change the email to matt@mail-server.net
>but does not allow for any kind of local mail backup :(
>  
>
...by default no, sendmail won't - but you can configure it to do all 
sorts of things (most of them stupid and incomprehensible though). I'd 
certainly go with using procmail to do this. It should be a 
dawdle.....thinks....(who's the guy on the list who knows everything 
about procmail?).

Without wishing to embarass myself too much...something like:
 
        :0
        mailbackup
       
         :0
        ! ${LOGNAME}@mail-server.net

might work.

Or even more tersely, make the forward operation a 'non-delivering' recipe:

    :0 c
    !${LOGNAME}@mail-server.net

(which has the advantage that everything will be 'backed up' to the 
default mailbox instead of a nominated folder in the previous example).

Or for a more funky script (plaguerizing the procmailex man page):

:0
*TOscottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
{
    :0
    slugbackup

    :0
    ! ${LOGNAME}@mail-server.net

    :0 ic
    | cd slugbackup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,32d`
}

would only forward mail sent to the slug list, and only keep the last 32 
messages.  

>The reason for this is I want to use a local machine as a mail server,
>but cant afford to lose any emails (am going to play with spam
>filters/mail scanning etc.).  So i want the emails to be backed up, but
>also have it sent to mail local mail server (with no apparent changes to
>the headers/body except the change to the RHS)
>
Do you want to change the headers rather than the envelope recipient? 
That makes it a lot more complicated!

>
>i also need this to work if my email addy is i the CC field or part of a
>long list of addresses, or (as in a mailing list) the 'To:' field dosn't
>contain my actual email addy.
>
Check the headers of this message - you don't appear in any of them 
(except maybe a 'revd for').

Colin