Question for multiples recipients and rules

[Stephen Swaney]

Sorry I should have added that this only works with later versions of
sendmail, Versions 8.12.x

Steve
Steve at Swaney.com

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 08:43, Stephen Swaney wrote:

> Check the faq-o-matic:
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/169.html
>
> Unfortunately the formatting is off in the FAQ so I'll correct below
> and try to fix the FAQ. I've also worked the solution back into the
> sendmail.mc file so there is no need to "snip" the fix into the m4
> configurations files.
>
> I don't know of a similar work-around for Exim or Postfix.
>
> >From the FAQ:
>
> The Problem:
> MailScanner will apply individual SpamAssassin user preferences ONLY
> to the first recipient of messages which have multiple recipients.
> This results in the first recipient's spam preferences being applied
> (possibly incorrectly) to all of the other recipients of the message
> A Solution for those using sendmail thanks to Ken A, Pacific.Net.
> I qoute Ken:
> I have incoming sendmail splitting multiple recipient messages into
> multiple messages, so MailScanner and SA only sees one recipient per
> message.
> Here's what I did. If any sendmail gurus out there thing this is a bad
> idea, please let me know what a mess I've made of things :-)
> 1) Start the incoming sendmail with a different config file. Changes
> to /etc/rc.d/init.d/MailScanner (from rpm install on redhat) make this
> change to the incoming sendmail command line:
>
> ------ snip -------
>
>   $SENDMAIL -bd -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn \
>                        -ODeliveryMode=queueonly \
>                        -OQueueDirectory=$INQDIR \
>                        -OPidFile=$INPID \
>                        -C/etc/mail/sendmail_in.cf
>
> -------- snip --------
> 2) Make changes to the new sendmail config: cp /etc/mail/sendmail
> /etc/mail/sendmail_in.cf
> In sendmail_in.cf, add the following: The comment header "QUEUE GROUP
> DEFINITIONS" should be there already. Just add the single line under
> it.
> ------- snip --------
>
> ############################ # QUEUE GROUP DEFINITIONS # ############################
> Qmqueue, P=/var/spool/mqueue.in, F=f, r=1, R=8, I=2m
>
> ------- snip --------
>
> AND, just above the "Ruleset 3" comment header, add the following:
> (not sure if both lines are required or not...)
> --------- snip --------
> # LOCAL_RULESETS Squeuegroup R$* @ $* $# mqueue R$* $# mqueue
>
>
> ############################### ### Ruleset 3 -- Name Canonicalization ### ############################################
>
> --------- snip ----------
>
> Restart sendmail, and things like this start showing up in the log
> when messages with multiple recipients come in:
>
> Jul 17 08:14:31 host sendmail[7183]: h6HFDop8007183: split:
> maxrcpts=1, rcpts=3, count=2, ids=h6HFDop9007183; h6HFDopA007183
> So now mailscanner only sees one recipipient per message and rulesets
> only apply to the user they are supposed to apply to. Cool, huh?
> Thanks for all the suggestions!
> Ken A Pacific.Net
>
> To add the configuration changes into the m4 configuration, modify
> your sendmail.mc file:
>
> Add the line below anywhere in the define section of the file:
>
> QUEUE_GROUP(`mqueue', `P=/var/spool/mqueue.in, F=f, r=1, R=8, I=2m')
>
> Add at the very end of the file:
>
> # LOCAL_RULESETS
> Squeuegroup R$* @ $* $# mqueue R$* $# mqueue
>
> NOTE: this line must be formatted with a "tab" between the left-hand
> side and the right-hand side of the rule.
>
>
> Squeuegroup<space>R$*<tab>@<space>$*<space> $#<space>mqueue<space>R$*<space>$#<space>mqueue
>
> Then generate the new sendmail.cf file:
>
> m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf
>



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