At 09:54 06/03/2003, you wrote:
Well, but you do agree hat injecting the mail again and again will loop?
With the current setup the mail will come in, be forwarded to the
secretary, go through the filter again and again...
As I understand maildrop's behavior, the mail will come on my address, but
not from the "right" person so it will be forwarded to my secretary. In
other words, its headers will not contain a "To:
cris...@provus.ro" but something like "To:
my.s...@provus.ro". No loop at all. If I'm wrong, please correct me.
Let's look at your mailfilter again:
DEFAULT="./Maildir/"
logfile "maildrop.log"
if (/^From: *!.*/ && lookup($MATCH2, "email.allow"))
{
to "./Maildir/"
}
else
{
to "!my.s...@provus.ro"
}
so when From: doesn't match something it will then be forwarded to
my.s...@provus.ro . The From: hasn't changed. I believe
my.s...@provus.ro is on the same machine as your mailbox? In which
case it will go through the same global filter and hence loop?
OK maybe not... depening on whether or not it's a global filter (which is
what I thought) you say
a .qmail file reading:
| /var/qmail/bin/preline -f /usr/bin/maildrop .mailfilter
.qmail what? .qmail-christian? .qmail-default?
where can qmail find .mailfilter?
In your setup, I'm assuming maildrop should be running as the uid of the
user that gets mail as to be able to write to that directory. I don't know
where your maildir directories are and who they are owned by and who
should
/home/user/Maildir, owned by user. The Maildir is automatically created when
adding a new user (there is a Maildir in /etc/skel).
OK
have access to them apart from the MUAs. Maildrop is a local mail delivery
replacement with a good filtering engine. A local mail delivery agent
needs
to be able to write mail somewhere and needs adequate permissions to do
so.
Nope. I don't agree. If you and me would be users on the same machine, what
about me crafting a rule to write in your $HOME/.bashrc ? :)
Neither you or me should be allowed to write in the global maildrop filter
but only somone like root :).
"This account is currently not available" sounds a bit like there is no
shell assigned in passwd? Could that be it?
- Gregor
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