Postfix – How to Deliver Email to Inbox Using Procmail

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I have setup a Postfix mail server, and my goal was to pipe incoming emails to a script. I did this via Procmail. The script is getting run without any issues.

my issue is: I want to deliver a copy of the incoming email to the users inbox as well.
following is my .procmailrc file. Also I'm using Maildir format.

LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
VERBOSE=YES
SHELL=/bin/sh
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir
:0
|/home/user1/script.sh

:0c
[email protected]

with the above .procmailrc file, script is getting run, but no email is getting delivered to users inbox.

Best Answer

You need a c flag on the first recipe (and no c flag on the second, unless you want a third copy of the message after this delivery).

In very brief, the first successful delivering recipe terminates Procmail's processing of this message. If you want it to continue after that point, add a c ("clone") flag (but in more complex scenarios perhaps also some sort of error checking and fallback processing, via the e and/or E flags).

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You might want to push the routing function onto RT instead of trying to implement it in procmail. Let the email be sent to RT, and then use something like the EmailRouting or SetOwnerAndQueueBySubject scrip examples to short the email into the appropriate queue.

From the RT Wiki ( https://rt-wiki.bestpractical.com/wiki/Main_Page ) :

EmailRouting -> https://rt-wiki.bestpractical.com/wiki/EmailRouting

SetOwnerAndQueueBySubject -> https://rt-wiki.bestpractical.com/wiki/SetOwnerAndQueueBySubject

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I'd do it earlier still - by removing your domain name from mydestination, mail for that domain should be delivered to the server listed as MX for your domain. If you want to specify a server, as opposed to using the MX, you should use the file /path/to/postfix/etc/transport for this. That file should then look like this:

# all mails to our own domain should go to our main incoming server
ourdomain.com    smtp:[mainserver.ourdomain.com]

Please note that the [] marks are important - without them, your server will still lookup the MX record for mainserver.ourdomain.com.

After editing the file, use the command postmap /path/to/postfix/etc/transport

You also need to make sure that postfix knows to use that file, by editing /path/to/postfix/etc/main.cf with the following line:

transport_maps = hash:/path/to/postfix/etc/transport

if your system uses db files. If instead it uses dbm files, the line should be

transport_maps = dbm:/path/to/postfix/etc/transport

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