postfix multi recipient

[Drew Marshall]

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Pete Russell said:
>> Well as far as I have read, you just set up a filter to pipe the mail
>> through a script that does the splitting then pipes the result back to
>> Postfix using sendmail. Not pretty. :-(
>>
>> Better may be to use this
>> http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2002-10/1490.html as a
>> better solution (Although still not pretty). None of the options just
>> put
>> mail in the hold queue they all involve passing it through smtpd twice.
>> The other option is to tell me what it's like to manage an Exim box ;-)
>>
>> Drew
>>
>
> I guess that other than using the recipient limit, which i am sure must
> be driving some who send us emails mad and the method you suggest above,
> is to use 2 x postfix instances, the first recieving mail as normal and
> configure with a transport_recipient_limit that passes mail to next
> instance on another port for regular processing?

That was about the conclusion i had reached too.
>
> Off to install Exim on a test machine ... :(

Let me know how you get on. It looks like you can do some very smart stuff
with Exim, if you can get your head around the config...

I am tempted but it's not broken (And I have confidence that Postfix is
secure)...

Drew



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