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THE HEADERS IN THE 14 EMAILS CONTAIN LINES LIKE THESE, EACH ADDITIONAL EMAIL
ADDING AN ADDITIONAL LINE LIKE THESE
Received: (from domain12@localhost)
	by www12.domain.com (8.12.11/8.11.2) id i3K7ijE2080266
	for testreallist; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 02:44:45 -0500 (CDT)
Received: (from domain12@localhost)
	by www12.domain.com (8.12.11/8.11.2) id i3K7ij4d080262
	for testreallist; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 02:44:45 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from www1.domain.com (www1.domain.com [161.58.230.220])
	by www12.domain.com (8.12.11/8.11.2) with ESMTP id i3K7ii9V080258
	for <testlist@xxxxxxxxxx>; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 02:44:44 -0500 (CDT)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Scott Wiersdorf
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 6:12 AM
> To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [vps-mail] Aliased Emails Avoid Procmail/Spamassassin?
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:08:35PM -0800, Ron Pero wrote:
> > I'm running VPS1, with procmail and spamassassin
> >
> > Is it true that if an email goes to an alias in sendmail, it
> does not get
> > checked by procmail or spamassassin?
> >
> > For example, for testlist@xxxxxxxxxx, there is this entry in
> the etc/aliases
> > testlist:
> > :include:/usr/home/domainwhatever/etc/mail/lists/_testlist_list.txt
> >
> > Does all email sent to testlist@xxxxxxxxxx get sent to the mail
> addresses in
> > _testlist_list.txt, without getting filtered by procmail or
> spamassassin?
> >
> > If so, any ideas on how to get around this?
>
> http://www.technoids.org/procmailfilter.html
>
> > My understanding is when mail arrives at the server, first stop is
> > procmailrc, then virtmaps, then aliases. So procmail should be
> processing
> > it.
>
> No, aliases/forwards are processed first. If sendmail determines after
> processing aliases and forwards that the mail will not be delivered
> locally, procmail (the "LOCAL delivery agent") will never be run.
>
> > Does it not work on aliased emails?
>
> You could change your alias to pipe to procmail (untested):
>
>     testlist: |/usr/local/bin/procmail -m /path/to/procmailrc
>
> and in your procmailrc file:
>
>     :0
>     * virus checks
>     /dev/null
>
>     :0
>     !newtestlist
>
> where newtestlist is an alias:
>
>     newtestlist: :include:/path/to/your/list
>
> Another (preferred) way would be to set up a user 'testlist' on your
> server. Remove the alias and create a .procmailrc file for the
> testlist user. Filter your mail there and when all done filtering send
> it to the list in the same way as above (create a newtestlist alias,
> etc.)
>
> These last two method rely on the alias name staying secret, which is
> fallible (but there are ways to help, such as putting a ", null" after
> the listname and where "null" is an alias for /dev/null). The link
> provided above will truly filter all incoming mail (and outgoing,
> if you want that), but is considered "advanced usage" for sendmail.
>
> Scott
> --
> Scott Wiersdorf
> scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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