ArchiveMail Exclusions

[Julian Field]

As it says right at the top of the comment about Archive Mail =, you can 
include

# Space-separated list of any combination of
# 1. email addresses to which mail should be forwarded,
# 2. directory names where you want mail to be stored,
# 3. file names (they must already exist!) to which mail will be appended
#    in "mbox" format suitable for most Unix mail systems.

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,
>
> 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
>
>   

Jules

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