ArchiveMail Exclusions

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

Stephen Conway wrote:
> Hello Julien:
>
> Thanks very much for that.  Seems to work OK.
>
> One other question, is there a way using ArchiveMail to forward messages
> instead of just make an archive?
>
> Ex:
>
> To:	*@domain.com	!somegroupmailbox at otherdomain.com
>
> Thanks,
>
>   
AFAIK the archive mail setting *does* take an e-mail address as an 
option to send everything there. You can either use that or, for 
example, use "non spam actions" to do the same thing (that is, archive 
everything except spam).
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian
> Field
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:57 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: ArchiveMail Exclusions
>
> 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
>
>