Thank you all for your suggestions. I am a little lost because none of them have done what
I want to do. So, let me explain what I am trying to do.
I am getting all my e-mail forwarded from user(a)outlook.com to another e-mail address, say:
user(a)gmail.com.
I send myself outgoing e-mails (BCc'ed). These all come from the same e-mail address,
that is mine.
Almost all forwarded e-mails have a Resent-From: field set to be: user(a)outlook.com in the
mail envelope. However, not all of them. Some of these e-mails (appears to be the ones
sent within my organization) do not have this field even though they are also forwarded.
I want to use procmail to store all the mails (and only those e-mails) with the From:
user(a)outlook.com to my $HOME/Mail/sent folder.
How do I do this? I don't know if this matters but I use: 'procmail -d %s'
when procmail is invoked by my fetchmail.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:55:25 -0600 Ranjan Maitra <maitra(a)email.com> wrote:
Thank you for your help and in detailing the process. Adding the
colon to the From: does not prevent e-mail having the Resent-From set at the same e-mail
address.
I am trying out your other suggestion.
Thanks again!
Best wishes,
Ranjan
On Tue, 24 Dec 2019 12:09:38 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull"
<steve(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
> Ranjan Maitra writes:
>
> > So, I use in my .procmailrc:
> >
> > :0:
> > *^From.*user(a)outlook.com
> > $HOME/Mail/sent/.
> >
> > And it used to work fine. However, recently I have also started
> > forwarding my e-mail from the address: user(a)outlook.com and what is
> > happening is that the e-mail envelope of every forwarded message
> > now contains the header: Resent-From.*user(a)outlook.com so all
> > forwarded e-mail is being saved to the sent folder.
>
> Based on your report, one possibility is that your recipe is catching
> the "Unix From" line (also called "envelope From line"), which
has the
> form
>
> From <optional stuff> user(a)wherever.dom <optional stuff>
>
> and is prepended to emails saved in so-called mbox format. (This is
> not part of the RFC 5322 Internet Message Format. It is specific to
> the way mail is handled locally by *some* configurations of *some*
> message delivery agents. It is not normally displayed by mail
> clients.) If this is the case, changing the recipe to
>
> :0:
> *^From:.*user@outlook.com
> $HOME/Mail/sent/.
>
> (change is colon after From) should catch only messages with an RFC
> 5322 From "user(a)outlook.com".
>
> > Is it possible to have a double condition? That is something that
> > says that if both Resent-From and From have *user(a)outlook.com, then
> > it should go to the sent-folder. In other words, is it possible to
> > use a AND or OR or Negation condition.
>
> I'll answer the question, but first I gotta preach. ;-) When you
> don't understand the problem, it is bad practice to ask questions in
> the form "how do I do ...", because respondents are likely to focus on
> the how of doing what you specifically asked, not on solving your
> problem. That's OK in some sense, you'll learn something, but it's
> likely to be frustrating when you do what you're told and it doesn't
> solve the underlying problem.
>
> To AND conditions:
>
> :0:
> * ^From:.*user@outlook.com
> * ^Resent-From:.*user@outlook.com
> $HOME/Mail/sent/.
>
> and BOTH conditions must match the header of the email. To OR
> conditions, use separate recipes.
>
> :0:
> * ^From:.*user@outlook.com
> $HOME/Mail/sent/.
>
> :0:
> * ^Resent-From:.*user@outlook.com
> $HOME/Mail/sent/.
>
> and if either condition matches the header of the mail, the mail will
> be saved in $HOME/Mail/sent/. . Most procmail recipes terminate
> processing on match, so order can matter (but does not in this case
> because there are no side effects and the action is the same). To
> NEGATE a condition, use ! in the recipe:
>
> :0:
> * ! ^Resent-From:.*user@outlook.com
> $HOME/Mail/sent/.
>
> sending anything NOT Resent-From user(a)outlook.com to .../sent/.
>
> The recipe that MIGHT do what you want if the colon suggestion doesn't
> work:
>
> :0:
> * ^From.*user(a)outlook.com
> * ! ^Resent-From.*user(a)outlook.com
> $HOME/Mail/sent/.
>
> (look Ma, no colons!, and the Resent-From condition is negated).
>
> HTH
>
> Steve
> XEmacs Project
> GNU Mailman Project
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