Re: procmail local delivery and aliases expansion

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:06:38AM -0700, LuKreme wrote:
> On 03 Jan 2015, at 09:10 , Richard Z <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am using esmtp which in turn uses "procmail -d %T" for local
> > mail delivery - and would prefer to avoid installing any of the
> > big sendmail-like packages.
> > 
> > Problem is, procmail does not expand aliases when used like this 
> > so mail from daemons to root etc ends up in the wrong places.
> 
> It is not procmail’s job to expand aliases as it is an LDA, not an MTA. smtp should be able to do this if it’s a proper MTA.
> 
> > Coding the alias expansion myself should not be too difficult but
> > perhaps it has been done before?
> 
> I imagine it will be a lot more complicated than you may think.

Yes, original sendmail /etc/aliases had a few "exotic" features but
plain address expansion is what I am looking for and that should not
be too hard. Actually a bit surprised that there does not seem
to be any standalone utility to do that.

Richard

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