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 u...@outlook.com to another e-mail address, say: u...@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: u...@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: u...@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 <mai...@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" <st...@xemacs.org> > wrote: > > > Ranjan Maitra writes: > > > > > So, I use in my .procmailrc: > > > > > > :0: > > > *^From.*u...@outlook.com > > > $HOME/Mail/sent/. > > > > > > And it used to work fine. However, recently I have also started > > > forwarding my e-mail from the address: u...@outlook.com and what is > > > happening is that the e-mail envelope of every forwarded message > > > now contains the header: Resent-From.*u...@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> u...@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:.*u...@outlook.com > > $HOME/Mail/sent/. > > > > (change is colon after From) should catch only messages with an RFC > > 5322 From "u...@outlook.com". > > > > > Is it possible to have a double condition? That is something that > > > says that if both Resent-From and From have *u...@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:.*u...@outlook.com > > * ^Resent-From:.*u...@outlook.com > > $HOME/Mail/sent/. > > > > and BOTH conditions must match the header of the email. To OR > > conditions, use separate recipes. > > > > :0: > > * ^From:.*u...@outlook.com > > $HOME/Mail/sent/. > > > > :0: > > * ^Resent-From:.*u...@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:.*u...@outlook.com > > $HOME/Mail/sent/. > > > > sending anything NOT Resent-From u...@outlook.com to .../sent/. > > > > The recipe that MIGHT do what you want if the colon suggestion doesn't > > work: > > > > :0: > > * ^From.*u...@outlook.com > > * ! ^Resent-From.*u...@outlook.com > > $HOME/Mail/sent/. > > > > (look Ma, no colons!, and the Resent-From condition is negated). > > > > HTH > > > > Steve > > XEmacs Project > > GNU Mailman Project > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > > -- > Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on > receipt. 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