Procmailrc fun and games

Lemming

Hey guys,

I'm trying to send an autoresponse to any use sending a mail to userX, and also sending a copy of the original mail to userY

Here's the .procmailrc (for userX)

:0 h
* !^From: .*autoresp
* !^From: .*userx@blah
* !^From: .*User.X@blah
{
 :0
 ! userY
 :0 c
 | (formail -r ; echo "`/home/auto.reply.userX`") | sendmail -oi -t
}

Ok, I'm not getting an autoreply and userX isn't getting the original mail either.

From what I've gathered, I'm making sure that userX isn't looping mail to themselves, then sending a copy to userY, then returning an autoreply message to the user.

Any suggestions/ideas?

Ronin

setup a log file within your procmailrc and see what it tells you for the mails

Lemming

Got it sorted

Swap the two actions and everything is fine. The problem with the original version was that the email was being re-directed to the second user before a carbon copy could be sent to the original sender (or at least, that's my understanding of it)

So I ended up with:

:0 h
* !^From: .*autoresp
* !^From: .*userx@blah
* !^From: .*User.X@blah
{
 :0 c
 | (formail -r ; echo "`/home/auto.reply.userX`") | sendmail -oi -t
 :0
 ! userY
}