a question on sendmail

Lemming

Hey guys,

I've got an autoresponse configuration set up here under a RH 7.3 install

I've an "autoresponse" user set up so we can do various thingies here in the office with it. In the /home/autoresp/.procmailrc file there are a load of group mail configurations, eg. "allstaff", "alldev" etc etc.

We have a particular config:

:0 h
* ^to: *.userlist
* !^From: .*autoresp
{
  :0
!  user1 user2 user3 user4 etc
}

and the 'userlist' alias is defined in the /etc/aliases file as:

userlist : autoresp

and what seems to happen is that if I sent a mail to 'userlist', and user1 replies I get a mail back (from userlist@blah) no problem. But if I attempt to reply to this again, no mail is sent back and just seems to get lost.

Funnily enough, if I attempt to grep the mail log file I get no reference to my ever sending or receiving a mail

cat maillog |grep myname |grep userlist

Anyone got any ideas? Apologies if this is a *little* vague cause Im' a bit stumped here.

peema

IIRC, in sendmail if you have a group alias
ulist:a,b,c
and one of the members of ulist sends a mail to ulist, the mail will _not_ be sent to a, only b and c.

I can't remember offhand if it's a configuration option or not, but it probably is.

Lemming

Thanks for that peema, but user 'D' isn't on the list.

user 'D' sends a mail to the list. user 'A' responds (as list@blah). The mail gets sent fine.

then user'D' attempts to reply to this mail, but the mail simply disappears once sent.

This behavious also occurs when anyone ON the list attempts to send a reply to a reply to an original mail.

It works once, then stops

peema

Actually, looking back....

Originally posted by Lemming

* ^to: *.userlist

Surely that should be:

* ^To:.*userlist

As ' *.' means zero or more space chars followed by a char.

Lemming

cheers peema

sorted it.

The particular use had created an MUA alias for a particular mail-list so it was appearing as "ListAcryonom <list@blah>"

and the original .procmailrc filter wasn't picking it up.

So having changed it to:

* ^to:.*list@blah

all is hunkydory .... for now :ninja: