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Re: Procmail Filtering

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From: Kurt Werle
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 00:00
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In article <jase-ya02408000R1201971930090001@nntp.best.com>,
Jase P. Wells <jase@enqueue.com> wrote:
>
>I'm having a bit of trouble filtering with procmail in conjunction with my
>virtual domain name. I've got a line in my .procmailrc like this:
>
>   :0
>   * ^TOeddy@enqueue.com
>   ! eddy@best.com
>
>This works when the mail is specifically addresses to eddy@enqueue.com.
>However, if eddy joins some mailing lists, the To address is often the
>address of the mailing list. That the e-mail is intended for eddy is hidden
>within another header, like this:
>
>   Received: from ftp1.primenet.com (root@ftp1.primenet.com [206.165.5.50]) by
>   proxy1.ba.best.com (8.8.4/8.8.3) with ESMTP id TAA07995 for
>  <eddy@enqueue.com>; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 19:15:30 -0800 (PST)
>
>How can I modify the procmail recipe to catch messages like the above?
>Thanks,
>jase

I have a modified version of popclient that does that.  I thought that the
original author was a best person...  In any case it does a pretty good job
of finding the desired target.  I can make the source available in my ftp
space if anyone likes...

>** To reply to this message, please edit the address to jase@enqueue.com **

Dude, you should just set your Reply-To: field up.  I should think that your
newsreader would do the same thing...

Kurt
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From: frsvnsvn@best.com (Kurt Werle)
Subject: Re: Procmail Filtering
Date: 1997/01/13
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