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bradlis7
Asked: 2010-03-25 08:30:29 +0800 CST

Procmail Mailing List (With Access Control)

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This seems like it should be fairly easy to do, but I've run into a few problems.

I've added a cron job to parse all users whose UID is greater than 500:

## This checks if the passwd file has been updated, and generates
## the .forward file from all users whose UID > 500, excluding nobody.
* * * * *       root /usr/bin/test /etc/passwd -nt ~allusers/.forward \
&& /bin/egrep '([5-9]|[0-9]{2})[0-9]{3}' /etc/passwd | /bin/grep -v 65534 \
| /bin/cut -d ':' -f 1 > ~allusers/.forward

Then I created a .procmailrc file:

VERBOSE=yes
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmailrc


#Allow only certain users to send
:0
* ^From.*[email protected].*
{}
:0E
/dev/null

But, the .forward file is processed before it even gets to procmail, evidently. If I moved the .forward file to another filename, can I use it in procmail to send an email to the users in this file?

procmail mailing-list

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I think we're just going to use a program to do the mailing -- Simple Mailing List. Procmail is just too difficult.

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