Hi All,

Firstly, my apologies if this is posted twice, I thought I had submitted but I can't find the first post I made so I am doing it again.


I have spent long hours searching for a solution to this but have had little success, partly perhaps because I don't really know what to search for.


I am using a server running Centos 5.11 (upgrading is not an option right now) hosting a number of domains and users per domain. Email for some users is being forwarded to remote addresses but I have found that some email is not being forwarded when sent from some addresses. In particular addresses like "postmaster@..." and "service@..." and is simply left in the mailbox.


My searching has suggested that Procmail is the culprit. A sample of the .procmailrc file for these accounts is as follows :-

Again, from what I have read the line causing the trouble is "!^FROM_MAILER".


So, is there any way I can add a whitelist type of line that will prevent email from "postmaster@..." etc being affected?


Or am I barking up the wrong tree?


Thanks for reading and any thoughts you might have but please be gentle, my name is "Thick Git". )

Hi,
Please note that FROM_MAILER is regular expression for system messages containing among others mail from postmaster and service,
If you want harry@example.com to be able to receive mail from the above system accounts, then you can delete the recipe.

Regards

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Thanks for taking the time to enlighten me Bathory.

OK, so that gave me some leads on where to search for more info and a few hours later, yet again, my brain is fried.

So, sorry to press you and take advantage of you kindness but I think it made sense to me in as much as I can simply delete the line that says "* !^FROM_MAILER" and that should be ok.

ie. the .procmailrc file would just read :-


Please confirm that my reading is correct, I am a bit concerned because I can't afford to mess this up.



Thanks again.

You're right about your assumption. Using the above all mail will be forwarded.

Just a FYI: If you're going to forward all email unconditionally, then you can also use a .forward file in the user's homedir. A .procmailrc is more suitable if you're going to filter mail.


Regards

Absolutely excellent Bathory thank you so much for coming back to me.

From my initial tests, editing out the line "* !^FROM_MAILER" appears to have solved my problem.


I am also running Spamassassin on this server and the mail still gets scanned by that before being forwarded. So perhaps the "FROM_MAILER" bit is overkill anyway. I will have to keep an eye on this.


I will also read up about ".forward" though I don't think I will need it, thanks for the heads-up.


Thanks again.