Re: Add a header line with postfix


Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:21:50 +0100
From: Mark Lijftogt <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>

I'm in the unlucky position to be searching for a possible solution for
a header issue that a java application is giving me. This java
application POP's it's email to distribute it later on. Now, in most
cases this goes without a hitch, except when the adress on which the
java application checks is bcc'ed.

For this reason the coders decided it was a wise step to push the issue
forward to the admins, requestion for every e-mail that passes on thrue
a X-evelope-to: header, with the recepient after that.

Now, I'm unsure how to approach this.. or how I could approach this, but
more important.. how I should approach this. header_checks and UCE rules
alike, in the duration that I was reading I'm unsure if that would be
the road to take (and a "deadline" is coming insight rather quickly).

Any pcre or other regex option availible that ADD's a headerline?



Unfortunately it is not clear from your description how the mail is being handled. When you say "This java application POP's it's email", is it always POPing from a single mailbox, or could it POP from various mailboxes? Anyway, if you just want to add a header when you know the envelope recipient, just pipe the message through this filter:

	formail -A "X-envelope-to: $recipient"

If the recipient is not defined then that is another story . . .




Thx for your reply,
I should have stuck to the question, and not make it a blurry episode describing what the application does
in a sense.

What is needed is quite simple, but I still don't know enough about postfix to get it done (right).
The mail handling is unchanged, looking at it from a default postfix install, but it needs to get an extra header
line: x-envelope-to: $recipient
the $recipient must be the recipient, so that the application can treat the mailbox as something like an
ETRN account.

Thx,
,Mark


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