Procmail forwarding -- headers stay visible

firecat53 · 2010-02-15 06:18:48

Any procmail gurus here? I set up a recipe looking like this:

:0c
! myemail@gmail.com

to forward all the email that my server retrieves (via getmail) from my POP account (comcast) to my gmail account. The emails forward just fine, but all of the header information is visible in the gmail account...not just the body. Am I missing something or is this how it's supposed to work? This also makes it difficult for my wife when I forward some messages to her blackberry via procmail, because she has to scroll through all the header info to get to the message....and it doesn't read an html message as html, just as plain text. For example, when it forwards an email with the body 'testing', I get in the gmail (and other mail clients, too, by the way) message body:

----- Forwarded message from Scott & Chrystie Hansen <mymail@comcast.net> -----

Return-Path: <mymail@comcast.net>
Delivered-To: unknown
Received: from mail.comcast.net (76.96.58.11) by localhost.localdomain with
       POP3; 15 Feb 2010 04:08:17 -0000
Received: from omta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (LHLO
       omta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.62.87) by
       sz0160.ev.mail.comcast.net with LMTP; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:07:04 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from homeserver ([67.16.86.108])
       by omta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast
       id i48p1d0022LHwCr3b48reB; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:08:51 +0000
X-CAA-SPAM: F00000
X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=kHxrf7I9UD0lRZQ/SiomLxiykFGgntJFctOKP1iKuN8=
       c=1 sm=1 a=TSGK3owHVel7WhS8hlDQ+g==:17 a=HLxLcvgiw4F-WX1bOVYA:9
       a=s-Ql-B_bsnqYGfr35hWvHIik4KAA:4 a=TSGK3owHVel7WhS8hlDQ+g==:117
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:06:59 -0800
From: Scott & Chrystie Hansen <mymail@comcast.net>
To: Scott Hansen <mymail@comcast.net>
Subject: testing
Message-ID: <20100215040659.GA7696@homeserver>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
Content-Length: 8

testing

----- End forwarded message -----

Is there way to get rid of that and make it look just like it was sent to my gmail account without all the forwarding info and retain the original sender/reply to/etc. Hope that makes sense...

Thanks,
Scott

Last edited by firecat53 (2010-02-15 07:10:55)

10thApeRag · 2010-03-22 16:45:22

Did you get this figured out? I'm working on a few procmail recipes to do something very similar (except I want to forward to my Blackberry instead of Gmail) and I keep getting all those headers...

firecat53 · 2010-03-23 23:48:07

No, I never did solve it. Finally just used the built in forwarding from comcast to send our mail to gmail. Slowly migrating away from the comcast account...now on my server I just use the offlineimap method to keep a local copy of everything from gmail. No more procmail or getmail. :-)

Scott

Arch Linux

#1 2010-02-15 06:18:48

Procmail forwarding -- headers stay visible

#2 2010-03-22 16:45:22

Re: Procmail forwarding -- headers stay visible

#3 2010-03-23 23:48:07

Re: Procmail forwarding -- headers stay visible

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