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- From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
- Subject: Re: Bug in sendmail causes message loss
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- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- References: <1992Dec14.011335.5744@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:36:06 GMT
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- In <1992Dec14.011335.5744@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
-
- >The bug I am about to describe could be a generic sendmail bug, but I do not
- >have the time or the inclination to find out...
- >[...]
- >"| /usr/local/bin/procmail"
- >then you have problems.
-
- Yes, sendmail treats this as an e-mail address, and removed duplicates.
-
- Quoting from the procmail distribution:
-
- make sure it is invoked when your mail arrives. In this
- case your $HOME/.forward (beware, it has to be world read-
- able) file should contain (include the single and double
- quotes, must be an absolute path):
-
- "|IFS=' ';exec /usr/local/bin/procmail #YOUR_LOGIN_NAME"
-
- And:
-
- Some mailers 'optimise' maildelivery and take out duplicates from
- Cc:, Bcc: and alias lists before delivery. If two or more persons on
- such a list would have identical .forward files, then the mailer will
- eliminate all but one. Adding a '#' with your login name following
- it will make the .forward files unique, and will ensure that the mailer
- does optimise away some addresses.
-
- --
- -Gary Mills- -Networking Group- -U of M Computer Services-
-