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Re: procmail as local MDA pointers?
Matti Aarnio writes:
> > Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, this is exactly what I
> > did. I commented out command="mailbox -8" and uncommented
> > command="sm -8c $channel procm" in the local/* definition. It was then
> > that I discovered procmail was being asked to deliver mail to aliases,
> > which clearly wouldn't work. Any ideas? What I want to have done is
> > procmail be used *only* for user's mailboxes, and zmailer's mailbox be
> > used for pipes and files.
> The alias expansions et.al. happen entirely inside the router.
> Therefore there must be something else wrong.
> (The mailbox is also uterly unable to do alias expansions, thus
> if it works, while the procmail does not...)
Well, something fishy's going on, cause aliases are not
expanding prior to hitting procmail:
> Could you show (me) a verbose trace of such a delivery test ?
> Supply also your current scheduler.conf.
> $ echo test | mailx -v -s test some-test-address > mail.log 2>&1
mail.log:
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router processed message 3721-14928
l <19970624143549Z3721-14928+3@goof.com>
e "matthew c. mead" <mmead>
e mmead@goof.com
s local mmead mmead@goof.com 10000
r local phoenix phoenix 10000
N ORCPT=rfc822;phoenix
headers rewritten using 'internet' function:
Received: from mmead@localhost by goof.com id <3721-14928>; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:35:49 -0400
From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com>
To: phoenix@goof.com
Subject: test
Message-Id: <19970624143549Z3721-14928+3@goof.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:35:36 -0400
router done processing 3721-14928
/usr/local/bin/procmail
procmail -f mmead@goof.com -a phoenix -d phoenix
Received: from mmead@localhost by goof.com id <3721-14928>; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:35:49 -0400
From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com>
To: phoenix@goof.com
Subject: test
Message-Id: <19970624143549Z3721-14928+3@goof.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:35:36 -0400
Return-Path: <mmead@goof.com>
Diagnostic: [exit status 67 (addressee unknown)]
scheduler done processing 3721-14928
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scheduler.conf:
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# Do not edit this file, instead edit /goof/goof/home/mmead/zmailer-2.99.49/proto/scheduler.conf
#
#
# Scheduler configuration file
#
# The scheduler reads this file on startup or when it receives a SIGUSR1 signal
#
# Every channel/host combination in recipient addresses will be sifted through
# the clauses matched in this file, picking up parameters until a clause that
# specifies a command. Everything is free-form with three requirements:
# Clauses (i.e. the channel/host pattern) start at the beginning of a line.
# Clause contents (i.e. the parameters) don't.
# Components are separated by whitespace.
# NB! For command paths, the "current directory" is MAILBIN/ta
# Boilerplate default parameters
*/* interval=1m
idlemax=4m # Max idle for SMTP connections is 5 minutes, don't exceed that!
# # (Unless smtp channel becomes a bit smarter on handling it..)
#
# expire messages after 3 days without full delivery
expiry=3d
# when the scheduler gets to the end of the retry sequence,
# it starts over at some random point in the middle. The
# numbers are factors of the scheduling interval.
retries="1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34"
# no default limits on simultaneous transport agents or
# connections to a particular host
maxchannel=0
maxring=20
#
maxta=250 # OSF/1 has 4096 files per process. Don't overbook :-)
#
# skew is maximum number of tries before the retry time is
# aligned to a standard boundary (seconds modulo interval).
skew=1
# default uid/gid of transport agents
user=root
group=daemon
#
# A flag telling about queue-order..
#
ageorder
overfeed=150
# Deferred delivery is handled by this transport agent. Deferrals are low
# priority, but they tend to bunch up. The 1 channel slot means there will
# be lots of contention, and typical checking intervals will be a bit higher
# than what is specified (due to waiting for a free slot).
hold/*
interval=5m
maxchannel=1
command=hold
# BITNET delivery methods
defrt1/*
maxchannel=3
command="sm -c $channel defrt1"
bsmtp3/*
maxchannel=3
command="sm -c $channel bsmtp3"
bsmtp3nd/*
maxchannel=3
command="sm -c $channel bsmtp3nd"
bsmtp3rfc/*
maxchannel=3
command="sm -c $channel bsmtp3"
bsmtp3ndrfc/*
maxchannel=3
command="sm -c $channel bsmtp3nd"
# Local delivery: files, processes, user mail
local/file*
interval=5m
idlemax=9m
# Originally we had 3 hour expiry, but if your local system goes to
# a fizz (freezes, that is), your local mail may start to bounce
# before anybody notices anything...
expiry=3d
# want 20 channel slots, but only one HOST
maxchannel=15
maxring=5
#
# Do MIME text/plain; Quoted-Printable -> text/plain; 8BIT
# conversion on flight! (Can't use CYRUS, nor PROCMAIL here!)
command="mailbox -8"
local/pipe*
interval=5m
idlemax=9m
# Originally we had 3 hour expiry, but if your local system goes to
# a fizz (freezes, that is), your local mail may start to bounce
# before anybody notices anything...
expiry=3d
# want 20 channel slots, but only one HOST
maxchannel=15
maxring=5
#
# Do MIME text/plain; Quoted-Printable -> text/plain; 8BIT
# conversion on flight! (Can't use CYRUS, nor PROCMAIL here!)
command="mailbox -8"
local/*
interval=5m
idlemax=9m
# Originally we had 3 hour expiry, but if your local system goes to
# a fizz (freezes, that is), your local mail may start to bounce
# before anybody notices anything...
expiry=3d
# want 20 channel slots, but only one HOST
maxchannel=15
maxring=5
#
# Do MIME text/plain; Quoted-Printable -> text/plain; 8BIT
# conversion on flight!
#command="mailbox -8"
# Or with CYRUS server the following might do:
#command="sm -8c $channel cyrus"
# Or with PROCMAIL as the local delivery agent:
command="sm -8c $channel procm"
# smtpx is a channel where the delivery is done without checking at MXes;
# rather only on A/AAAA (address) entries:
smtpx/*
maxchannel=90
maxring=10
command="smtp -c smtpx -x -s"
# Sometimes we may want to PUNT all out to somewhere without regarding
# on what the routing said:
#
# smtp/*
# maxchannel=199
# maxring=5
# command="smtp -F [192.89.123.25] -l /var/log/mail/smtp.punt"
# This is a FAST EXPIRY test case.. Will always cause bounce, btw..
smtp/*-gw.funet.fi
maxchannel=0
maxring=5
expiry=1m
interval=15s
retries="1"
skew=1
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.rutgers.edu
maxchannel=199
maxring=10
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.edu
maxchannel=199
maxring=20
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.com
maxchannel=199
maxring=30
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.uk
maxchannel=199
maxring=8
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.ca
maxchannel=199
maxring=10
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.se
maxchannel=199
maxring=7
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.dk
maxchannel=199
maxring=7
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.is
maxchannel=199
maxring=5
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.no
maxchannel=199
maxring=7
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.de
maxchannel=199
maxring=10
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.uk
maxchannel=199
maxring=10
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.gov
maxchannel=199
maxring=5
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.mil
maxchannel=199
maxring=5
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.net
maxchannel=199
maxring=10
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
smtp/*.org
maxchannel=199
maxring=10
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
# Within FUNET we have a bit longer expiry..
smtp/*funet.fi
maxchannel=199
maxring=9
# maxta=2
interval=10m
retries="1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34"
skew=1
# Do FORCED MIME-decoding into C-T-E: 8BIT
command="smtp -8sl /var/log/mail/smtp"
# Within our organization we care more about speed and capacity than connections
# The maxchannel value should be larger than the value used by smtp/*, to avoid
# some potential state and phase problems in the queues.
smtp/*.fi
maxchannel=199
maxring=20
interval=10m
retries="1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34"
skew=1
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
# Connections to the outside shouldn't duplicate effort so we only allow one
# per destination.
smtp/*
maxchannel=199
maxring=50
command="smtp -s" # -l /var/log/mail/smtp"
# Error messages. Delivery can be retried at leisure.
error/*
interval=5m
idlemax=2m
maxchannel=5
command=errormail
# UUCP delivery. The "sm" transport agent picks the first host it sees and
# will select further recipient addresses with that host only. We tell
# the scheduler this with the "byhost" boolean, to avoid a staggered delivery
# effect if the scheduler has to discover this on its own.
uucp/* maxchannel=5
command="sm -8c $channel uucp"
# News delivery. Hostname is always the same here.
usenet/* maxchannel=2
command="sm -8c $channel usenet"
# UBC EAN X.400 gateway. See comment at UUCP.
ean/* maxchannel=1
command="sm -c $channel ean"
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> Follow that log thru -- last line should be:
> scheduler done processing ...
> and them mail it to me.
Here's phoenix in the /var/zmailer/db/aliases:
phoenix: "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l phoenix -h goof.com phoenix-yumayumayumayuga0"
-matt
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Matthew C. Mead Technology Support Staff,
Mathematics Department,
mmead@math.vt.edu Virginia Tech
(540)231-2643