Re: Procmail Help

Figures it out.  THat has to be a ! not | at the beginning of the
line:

:0c
* ^X-Forwarded-For: kira...@... ash...@...
! ashley-arch...@...

Having a | implies executing of a script or command.  The ! forwards
it properly.  Oops.  Oh, and this was resolved by looking at
procmail's verbose log file.  Thanks for the tip!

On Jan 18, 11:09 am, KirAsh4 <kira...@...> wrote:
> Nope, that's how it shows up in the headers.  I've literally copied it
> from the headers like that.  It's a GMail thing when you set
> forwarding up.  And if it didn't work, then the first rule would also
> fail, and I know that one works.
>
> On Jan 18, 10:42 am, Roger <roger.in.eug...@...> wrote:
>
> > I think you can enable verbose loggging to see what's going on.
>
> > spaces are critical.     Perhaps you need to account for possible
> > spaces in the 'x-forwarded-for' line?
>
> > I honestly don't know about having two addresses on the one line.
> > Does that line appear exactly in the header or are you trying to have
> > it catch for both addresses?
> > If it could have either address, but not both, you'll need two recipes.
>
> > * ^X-Forwarded-For: kira...@...
> >  | ashley-arch...@...
>
> > * ^X-Forwarded-For: ash...@...
> >  | ashley-arch...@...
>
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:51 AM, KirAsh4 <kira...@...> wrote:
>
> > >    Well, all of what you said and the way I understand the various
> > > recipes I've been scouring online, all of it makes sense.  But for
> > > some reason it's not working.  Procmail is doing the first part, and
> > > ignoring the second part (it's not copying the message when it returns
> > > from GMail.)  And I can't figure out why.  This is what the recipe
> > > looks like now:
>
> > > :0
> > > * !^X-Forwarded-For: kira...@... ash...@...
> > > * !^From.*kira...@...
> > > ! kira...@...
>
> > > :0c
> > > * ^X-Forwarded-For: kira...@... ash...@...
> > > | ashley-arch...@...
>
> > > (having a space between 0 and c doesn't seem to make any difference,
> > > but this is also how many recipes are written, without the space.)
>
> > > I have double checked the returning message from GMail and the X-
> > > Forwarded line is spot on accurate.  So what am I missing here?  How
> > > can I trace it or figure out why it's not running the second recipe
> > > and just drops it in my INBOX without the forward?  I wonder what
> > > would happen if I reverse the rules ... if the second one will fail
> > > (and thus not forward to GMail at all.)
>
> > > A
>
> > > On Jan 13, 3:37 pm, Roger <roger.in.eug...@...> wrote:
> > >> After your current recipe, would something like:
> > >> :0  c
> > >> * ^X-Forwarded-For: kira...@... ash...@...
> > >> | secondemail <at> address
> > >>  ###  'c' essentially means a copy of the email, even if it matches, a
> > >> copy drops through.
>
> > >> If that condition exists, then send a copy to that second address.
> > >> The original forwarded  would still fall through and go to primary
> > >> mailbox..  (I think)
>
> > >> Is that what you want?
> > >> in summary, your recipe combined with the one above.
>
> > >> New email arrives for you, if it hasn't been forwarded, then send it
> > >> off to gmail for spam check.  once it comes back (via google forward),
> > >> the 1st recipe ignores it.  the second recipe (above), would then
> > >> forward a copy to the second address in addition to the primary
> > >> mailbox.
>
> > >> Roger
>
> > >> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:37 PM, KirAsh4 <kira...@...> wrote:
> > >> >    Procmail is considered a scripting language, right?  Right?
> > >> > Right? :)
>
> > >> >    Anyway, I need some words of wisdom here.  At the moment, I'm
> > >> > using a short procmail script that forwards incoming email to gmail
> > >> > and only delivers it to the final mailbox if it comes back from
> > >> > gmail.  It's a crude way of filtering for SPAM since Gmail is much
> > >> > better at it:
>
> > >> >    :0
> > >> >    * !^X-Forwarded-For: kira...@... ash...@...
> > >> >    * !^From.*kira...@...
> > >> >    ! kira...@...
>
> > >> >    This works really well.  Email arrives at our server, procmail
> > >> > sees that it hasn't passed through Gmail and sends it on to my Gmail
> > >> > address.  Gmail scans it, deems it legitimate and sends it back (via
> > >> > Gmail's internal forwarding).  When it arrives back at our server,
> > >> > procmail sees the X-Forwarded for and delivers it in my INBOX.
>
> > >> >    But now I need to augment this a bit and forward those emails to a
> > >> > second mailbox, but ONLY those that are coming back from Gmail.
> > >> > Basically, when procmail sees the X-Forwarded for, it needs to forward
> > >> > that massage to a second mailbox besides dropping it into my INBOX.  I
> > >> > can't just put a forward line at the bottom because then it simply
> > >> > forwards and doesn't drop in my INBOX.
>
> > >> >    Suggestions?
>
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