Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On Sun 10 Mar 2013 at 15:00:29 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>
>> Would it be possible to also pipe outgoing mail through procmail or
>> similar, on its way to the MTA/SMTP server?
>
> When I initially looked at this I thought "maybe", but it did not seem
> particularly friendly to do. More to the point, I wasn't prepared to
> change anything in my MTA's configuration to get it working. After all,
> I became interested in this complaint about list mails plus CCs, not
> because they are an annoyance to me, but as an intriguing problem.
>
> A solution is possible if thinking is in terms of formail rather than
> procmail.
>
> There is a Debian package of proxsmtp. This program can proxy mail to a
> local or remote MTA. More to the point, it can run a script which can
> process the mail before passing it on. This one, for example:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> MID="$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S"noccsple...@example.com)
> TO="$(formail -zx"To":)
>
> if [ "$TO" = "something which identifies debian-user" ] ; then
> formail -I "Message-ID: ${MID}"
> fi
>
> There we are! A Message-ID generator which can be used with MUAs other
> than Mutti to mark list mails. Thank you very much for the nudge.
Question: Doesn't doing that mess things up for others, should you
reply to said message? The In-Reply-To: field when you send your reply
is going to now reference the new Message-ID you just put in, and for
those who use readers with threading, won't that break the thread (since
they won't have any messages which are using your new locally-stored
Message-ID)?
--Dave
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