Sorry, couldn't find this in the archives.
Under freebsd 4.x, the native mail.local that sendmail uses by
default writes From_ lines that include the origin address. This
is very readily parsable and handy for quick greps in mboxes. But
deliver defaults it to MAILER-DAEMON. I see you can specify the
envelope From_ with "-f", but I'm not sure how that's useful.
Also I'm trying to figure out the instructions for making deliver the
default delivery program under sendmail. This is a very plain vanilla
setup I have here, procmail is not configured into sendmail.cf so I'm
not sure how to adapt the instructions at wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail
Any help would be much appreciated. I've appended my local mailer
stuff below. Should I just substitute deliver's path for mail.local?
By the way, dovecot is very slick! It should speed up my
mail server by a huge factor. Many thanks to Timo!
Mlocal, P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qPSXmnz9P,
S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP,
A=mail.local -l
Mprog, P=/usr/libexec/smrsh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL,
R=EnvToL/HdrToL, D=$z:/,
T=X-Unix/X-Unix/X-Unix,
A=smrsh -c $u
Rich Winkel <rich at math.missouri.edu> wrote on 24 Sep 2007 18:05:> Under freebsd 4.x, the native mail.local that sendmail uses by > default writes From_ lines that include the origin address. This > is very readily parsable and handy for quick greps in mboxes. But > deliver defaults it to MAILER-DAEMON. I see you can specify the > envelope From_ with "-f", but I'm not sure how that's useful. > > Also I'm trying to figure out the instructions for making deliver the > default delivery program under sendmail. This is a very plain vanilla > setup I have here, procmail is not configured into sendmail.cf so I'm > not sure how to adapt the instructions at wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail > Any help would be much appreciated. I've appended my local mailer > stuff below. Should I just substitute deliver's path for mail.local?I use sendmail with dovecot's deliver to be able to use the sieve plugin. In my sendmail configuration I replaced the local mailer with: define(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver') define(`LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS',`DFMPhfnu9') define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS',`deliver -d $u') MAILER(local) MAILER(smtp) Note the mailer flag "f", thats adds a "-f fromaddress" argument to the deliver program. I have also a proposal for an enhancement to handle plussed addresses, but I'll create a new thread for this topic. Regards, Frank -- Frank Behrens, Osterwieck, Germany PGP-key 0x5B7C47ED on public servers available.