Tickets :: Comment on [#6433] add procmail support for external delivery

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Comment	> Currenty the Ingo procmail script does not work if procmail on your > server can deliver the mails directly and does not need an external > delivery program. > > > > However, on some mail servers an external program is required, eg. if > you use a mailbox format that procmail does not support directly > (like mbx for uwash imapd). In that case you hand the delivery off to > an external program: > > > > :0 w > > * someconditions > > \| /usr/local/sbin/dmail +$DEFAULT > > > > > > In most cases, this also means that the usage of procmail has to be > set in the .forward file in the user's home directory, eg.: > > "\|/usr/local/bin/procmail" > > > > The .procmail file always contains one final line the unconditionally > delivers to the inbox if no other condition was met: > > :0 w > > \| /usr/local/sbin/dmail +$DEFAULT > > (also note the 'w' - procmail should wait for the external program) > > > > This also means that no empty procmail script must be generated - > instead, the old configuration should be deleted (vfs.php). An empty > file would result in a delivery error (as the external delivery > program is not called). > > > > I wrote two patches that implement this behaviour and make it configurable. > > You can set the behaviour described above by setting: > > > > $backends['procmail'] = array( > > // generate .forward > > 'forwardstring' => '"\|/usr/local/bin/procmail"', > > ... > > 'scriptparams' => array( > > // use external delivery program > > 'deliver' => '/usr/local/sbin/dmail', > > // most external programs need a prefix for the box, eg > > // dmail +mybox > > // I have different prefixes, so it must be configured properly here > > 'deliverboxprefix' => '+', > > ... > > ) > > ) > > > > > > - the first patch changes lib/Script/procmail: > > * add default deliver > > * change delivery lines to \|deliver +/-/#MAILBOX > > * add "w" to ":0" for external delivery > > - the second patch changes lib/Driver/vfs.php > > * delete the script if it is empty (do not generate empty one) > > * if backend is forward and forwardstring is set, generate .forward > >
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