14 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildropRe: [maildropl] filters only work som...
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Robert StoeberFeb 25, 2003 10:19 am 
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Devin RubiaFeb 26, 2003 12:43 pm 
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Robert StoeberFeb 28, 2003 9:36 am 
Devin RubiaFeb 28, 2003 10:24 am 
Sam VarshavchikFeb 28, 2003 2:28 pm 
Robert StoeberFeb 28, 2003 3:54 pm 
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Subject:Re: [maildropl] filters only work sometimes?Actions...
From:Robert Stoeber (Rob@usabusiness.net)
Date:Feb 26, 2003 12:18:44 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop

At 06:19 AM 2/26/2003, you wrote:

Yes, there is an answer. Maildrop does not consider a "no user" error to be fatal and will defer the message. Sam's position on this seems to be that the MTA should not be passing mail for invalid users on to the local delivery agent, however, this is not an option for some of us.

There are probably a couple of ways around this.

You could try setting your exit code manually:

if ( /smith/:h ) { EXITCODE=0 exit }

Devin,

Thanks for the detailed information. This filtering has been the most confusing part of setting up qmail, for me at least. Just when I think I've figured it out, something else unexpected pops up.

I would rather not patch the software if I can get by without it. So I added the EXITCODE=0 and that seems to have solved the problem, at least partially. Only one message managed to sneak through in the past 14 hours.

While waiting for your response I upgraded to vpopmail 5.3.16 and maildrop 1.5.2. Not sure if that would make any difference, but I used the same configuration options that I had used before.

Watching the logs pretty carefully overnight it looked like everything was working properly. However, this morning a message came in and delivery was attempted to the non-existent user. It looks like this in the queue:

messages in queue: 1 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 26 Feb 2003 18:03:43 GMT #16229 2373 <phil@bluemail.dk> local usab@usabusiness.net

The maildop log around then shows this. (The message before this one was about 10 minutes earlier.) My mailfilter log message isn't displayed at all so it looks like the match was never made. Is it possible for messages to get into the queue without passing through my mailfilter? The user id jsmith must have been in the header or it couldn't have ended up in the queue.

Date: Wed Feb 26 11:03:44 2003 From: "Christina" <phil@bluemail.dk> Subj: **SPAM** Tired of 40 X 40 X 40 Plan? 18298 !Err: | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox (4727)

Date: Wed Feb 26 11:03:44 2003 From: "Christina" <phil@bluemail.dk> Subj: **SPAM** Tired of 40 X 40 X 40 Plan? 18298 File: /var/spool/mail/vpopmail (4727)

Date: Wed Feb 26 11:05:24 2003 From: "Christina" <phil@bluemail.dk> Subj: **SPAM** Tired of 40 X 40 X 40 Plan? 18298 !Err: | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox (4727)

Date: Wed Feb 26 11:05:24 2003 From: "Christina" <phil@bluemail.dk> Subj: **SPAM** Tired of 40 X 40 X 40 Plan? 18298 File: /var/spool/mail/vpopmail (4727)

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