From: John Deacon (jrd@star.ucl.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 06:49:29 EDT
Hi all -
possibly a little off-topic but i've had no help from the procmail mailing
list so here goes...
i've installed procmail so i can use spamassassin and noticed an annoying
feature which i initially thought was down to spamassassin but further
investigation seems to indicate it's actually procmail. what happens is
that all incoming mail goes through procmail and gets the header rewritten
such that the 'To:' and 'Cc:' fields have the hostnames stripped out of
all addresses. so, for example, an email sent
From: user@some.where
To: jrd@star.ucl.ac.uk, abc@some.other.place
Cc: someone@some.where.else
will appear in my inbox as
From: user@some.where
To: John Deacon <jrd>, abc
Cc: someone
this doesn't happen if i don't pass email through procmail. obviously this
can make replying to all recipients a little tricky...
i'm currently using a ~/.forward file containing (as recommended in the
docs)
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #jrd"
and my ~/.procmailrc file is now totally empty so procmail should be doing
nothing at all to incoming emails but it's still stripping out hostnames...
this is procmail v3.22 built out of the box with the default settings on a
Tru64 v5.1 (PK6) machine. procmail on a Linux machine doesn't seem to do
this, so is this a Tru64 'feature' or just something i'm doing wrong ?
TIA,
john
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