Postfix / Archive Mail duplicates

[Pete]

Michael Pacey wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have set up MailScanner with Postfix (two instances of Postfix - one
>incoming SMTP, one delivery) according to the documentation; I am using
>MailScanner to archive SMTP mail from or to a specific user to an
>archive mail account. So I have:
>
>Archive Mail = /etc/MailScanner/rules/archive.rules
>
>and archive.rules says:
>
>FromorTo:       sales at wd41.co.uk       archive at wd41.co.uk
>
>And indeed all mail from, or to, sales at wd41.co.uk is also going to
>archive at wd41.co.uk.  wd41.co.uk is my test domain, my real one is wd21.
>
>However, it arrives twice in the archive account (and only once in the
>sales account). My log says (this is a manual run of check_mailscanner):
>
>Mar 22 00:17:04 juan postfix/smtpd[2239]: connect from
>unknown[192.168.0.11]
>Mar 22 00:17:04 juan postfix/smtpd[2239]: 6D4723B325:
>client=unknown[192.168.0.11]
>Mar 22 00:17:04 juan postfix/cleanup[2241]: 6D4723B325:
>message-id=<E1B5D8V-0003Cz-00 at kermit.wd21.co.uk>
>Mar 22 00:17:04 juan postfix/nqmgr[1998]: 6D4723B325:
>from=<mpacey at wd21.co.uk>, size=518, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>Mar 22 00:17:04 juan postfix/smtpd[2239]: disconnect from
>unknown[192.168.0.11]
>Mar 22 00:17:04 juan postfix/nqmgr[1998]: 6D4723B325:
>to=<sales at wd41.co.uk>, relay=none, delay=0, status=deferred (deferred
>transport)
>Mar 22 00:29:12 juan MailScanner[2284]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
>version 4.28.5 starting...
>Mar 22 00:29:14 juan MailScanner[2284]: Using locktype = flock
>Mar 22 00:29:14 juan MailScanner[2284]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
>816 bytes
>Mar 22 00:29:14 juan MailScanner[2284]: Virus and Content Scanning:
>Starting
>Mar 22 00:29:14 juan MailScanner[2284]: Requeue: 6D4723B325 to
>AE7246E78D
>Mar 22 00:29:14 juan MailScanner[2284]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
>Mar 22 00:29:14 juan postfix/nqmgr[2092]: AE7246E78D:
>from=<mpacey at wd21.co.uk>, size=596, nrcpt=3 (queue active)
>Mar 22 00:29:14 juan MailScanner[2284]: MailScanner child dying of old
>age
>Mar 22 00:29:14 juan postfix/local[2287]: AE7246E78D:
>to=<archive at wd41.co.uk>, orig_to=<unknown>, relay=local, delay=730,
>status=sent ("|procmail
> -a $EXTENSION")
>Mar 22 00:29:14 juan postfix/local[2288]: AE7246E78D:
>to=<sales at wd41.co.uk>, relay=local, delay=730, status=sent ("|procmail
>-a $EXTENSION")
>Mar 22 00:29:14 juan postfix/local[2290]: AE7246E78D:
>to=<archive at wd41.co.uk>, orig_to=<unknown>, relay=local, delay=730,
>status=sent ("|procmail
> -a $EXTENSION")
>
>
>Notice how nrcpt has gone from 1 to 3 during Mailscanner's activity -
>and the mail gets delivered twice to archive.
>
>If I comment out the Archive Mail setting in Mailscanner, I just get one
>mail to sales at wd41.co.uk; so there is no other setting which could be
>causing the problem.
>
>Any ideas why this is happening / how to fix it?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>--
>Michael Pacey <michael at wd21.co.uk>
>
>
>
>
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I remember seeing some one post before that you dont need procmail with
postfix, or with mailscanner, search the archives?