[CentOS] CentOS 6, Postfix, and Procmail -- how do I get it to work?

[Mike Burger]

On 2014-08-18 4:43 pm, David Beveridge wrote:
> Postfix has feature for this sort of thing built in.
> see
> http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html#auto_bcc
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> What is the trick to get Postfix's local command to pipe mail through
>> procmail?
>> 
>> I have:
>> 
>> -bash-4.1$ grep allow_mail_to_commands /etc/postfix/main.cf
>> allow_mail_to_commands = alias, forward
>> 
>> and
>> 
>> -bash-4.1$ cat .forward
>> |/usr/bin/procmail
>> 
>> and a .procmailrc file:
>> 
>> -bash-4.1$ cat .procmailrc
>> PATH=/usr/bsd:/bin:/usr/bin:/exp/rcf/share/bin
>> MAILDIR=/var/lib/amanda/Mail      #you'd better make sure it exists
>> DEFAULT=$ORGMAIL   #completely optional
>> LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from   #recommended
>> 
>> :0
>> * ^From.*no-reply at sns.amazonaws.com
>> |$HOME/retrieveArchive.tcl
>> 
>> :0
>> ! heller at deepsoft.com
>> 
>> Basically I want all mail to the Amanda Backup account, except 
>> messages
>> from
>> Amazon SNS, to be forwarded to me (the system admin).  The
>> retrieveArchive.tcl
>> is a script to process Amazon SNS messages.

That could work, but it might be a little bit of overkill. :-)

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