ArchiveMail Exclusions

[Julian Field]

Stephen,

Stephen Conway wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have the requirement to archive mail for some senders to a certain address
> but not if certain senders are matched, I have put the following but it
> still always archives, any way to configure this?
>
> From:   *@dontcopydomain.com     and     To:     @domaintobecopied.com
> no
>   
That will attempt to archive the mail to a directory called "no" which 
isn't what you meant. To archive nothing, you just leave it blank, so 
this is what you meant:
From: dontcopydomain.com and to: domaintobecopied.com
> From:	*@*	and	To:     @domaintobecopied.com
> usertobecopied at otherdomain.com
>   
That (the second line) is the same as saying
To: domaintobecopied.com usertobecopied at otherdomain.com
> This type of logic works well for the Max Message size rules, to have size
> restrictions for certain domains than others, but for this ruleset file
> which is type (AllMatch) as per docs, it doesn't use same logic.
>   
Correct, as it's an "AllMatch". This means that it will archive to all 
of the places and addresses specified by all the matching rules. That 
seemed a sensible thing to do at the time, and I still believe is what 
most people will want.

If you want to make it a FirstMatch, edit 
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/ConfigDefs.pl and move this line:
ArchiveMail
from the [All,Other] section to the [First,Other] section.
Then restart MailScanner, and you will have changed the logic it uses. 
Dead easy.
Remember to re-apply the change when you next upgrade MailScanner, as 
changes you make to that file will be lost during the upgrade process.

Jules

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