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Re:what incoming address for mailing list? [message #10047 is a reply to message #10045]

Fri, 16 May 2003 14:56

stevie

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This procmail stuff is really new to me -- I've always used a pop client on a mac or windows machine to read my mail, so I never had a reason to learn about procmail. But I'm always glad to learn something new.

Let me see if I understand the basic flow of things ok, that will help me in my troubleshooting:

user "xyz" on my system "xyz.com" subscribes to a mailing list called "abc" that comes from "abc.com". The mailing list messages always come with "abc(at)abc(dot)com" in the To header.
the procmail app needs to be functioning on the system, and there is a .procmailrc file (probably in xyz's home directory). As long as procmail is running, and there is a valid .procmailrc file in the right place, then procmail "checks" all incoming mail to the user - and can optionally do some action based on the mail it looks at.
for the fudforum mailing list integration, the .procmailrc file needs to contain something like
```
:0:
* ^TO_.*DOMAINNAME.COM
| /web/fudfiles/scripts/maillist.php 1 
```
where DOMAINNAME.COM is the address the mailing list messages contain in the header (like "abc.com" above) and where the second line depends on your installation of fudforum.
If you have this stuff set up correctly, when user "xyz" receives email, mailproc checks it. If mailproc finds email that was sent TO "abc.com" it then executes the maillist.php script.
The maillist.php script requires a binary version of PHP in order to run, and it may need to be modified so that it can find the PHP app.
Assuming the maillist.php script is triggered ok, it takes the email message that triggered it and puts it in the designated forum, as if it had just been typed in by a person using the web interface.

Is this sequence basically correct for the process of getting incoming mail to be inserted into a fudforum forum? Thanks. -Steve

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		what incoming address for mailing list? By: stevie on Thu, 15 May 2003 21:02
		Re:what incoming address for mailing list? By: Ilia on Fri, 16 May 2003 14:26
		Re:what incoming address for mailing list? By: stevie on Fri, 16 May 2003 14:56
		Re:what incoming address for mailing list? By: stevie on Fri, 16 May 2003 17:34
		Re:what incoming address for mailing list? By: Ilia on Fri, 16 May 2003 17:40
		Re:what incoming address for mailing list? By: stevie on Fri, 16 May 2003 18:14
		Re:what incoming address for mailing list? By: Ilia on Fri, 16 May 2003 18:44

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