procmail doesn't work with some email addresses

hua · 05-13-2012, 07:33 AM

Hello
I try to copy the sent emails of several local users to their local manager email imap-mailbox. The manager should get for example the sent emails from 5 local user acounts.
My problem is that my rules in procmailrc work with several email recipients but not with others. For example:

Quote:

user 1 sends email to some external email address
mail from user1@local.com rcpt to some@external.com
..
successfully copied to /home/boss/managers
-----------
user 1 sends email to some another external email address
mail from user1@local.com rcpt to some@other-ext.com
..
nothing happens ...

Although in /var/log/maillog I can see the exact From: user1@local.com sender. But the procmail doesn't cache this one. What do I miss.

My procmailrc file:

Code:

# file: /etc/procmailrc
# global procmailrc
SHELL="/bin/bash"
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t"
LOGFILE="/var/log/procmail.log"
:0H
* ^From.*user1@local.com
{
    :0
    /home/boss/manager
}
:0H
* ^From.*user2@local.com
{
    :0
    /home/boss/manager
}

I use sendmail with dovecot.

Thanks for help

hua · 08-27-2012, 09:47 AM

I still cannot work this out. I already changed the local deliver to dovecots LDA and use SIEVE filters. The sieve filter works fine for other rules but not for this one which I need. I think there is something really important what I miss. I need to do this:

My users are whit mydomain.com:
user1@mydomain.com
user2@mydomain.com
External users are with externaldomain.com
user1@externaldomain.com
user2@externaldomain.com

With sieve filter I use the next script:

Quote:

# 2012-8-27
#
require "fileinto";
if header :contains ["from"] "user1@mydomain.com" {
fileinto "outbox-all";
}

As far as user1@mydomain.com sends email to (for example) user2@mydomain.com the SIEVE filter works.
But when user1@mydomain.com sends email to an external user user1@externaldomain.com it doesn't work.

I am trying to get over this problem long time and I tested procmail, maildrop, dovecots LDA. It looks like that all those delivery agents (procmail, maildrop, dovecot-lda) are working only if the email is processed as local-users email.
This means when the SMTP receives a message it decides weather the message is for a local-email-user or the message is forwarded to another SMTP server.
In this last case the MDA filters just doesn't work. I can see now that it is exactly how it should work. But it is possible to get this work some other way??

The problem is that the sent email is placed directly into a sent box by mail-user-agent and so it is not handled by the mail-delivery-agent again.