MS+Postfix, Selective HOLD

[Glenn Steen]

On 12/04/2008, Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
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>  Glenn Steen wrote:
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>  |> Nah, it likely is a regexp thing:-).
>  |>  Your pattern
>  |>  /.*/
>  |>  litteraly means "anything containing at least one character". So you
>  | Correction. It _should_ mean anything containing 0 or more characters,
>  | but seem to mean the above... Which will miss the empty string. Sigh.
>  |
>  |>  need match the empty recipient as well with a separate
>  |>  /^$/ HOLD
>  |>  pattern in there, or else the empty sender (==MAILER-DAEMON,
>  |>  postmaster or ...:-) will simply "fall through".
>  |>  Try it and tell us how you fare!
>
>  Tried that one. But it is not working. The recipient is in fact the
>  postmaster and it contains a sender as well.
>
>  For example:
>
>  Return-Path: <ssodnieg at Oqlaw.Com>
>  X-Original-To: postmaster at vanderkooij.org
>  Delivered-To: postmaster at vanderkooij.org
>  Received: from rrcs-72-43-49-109.nys.biz.rr.com
>  (rrcs-72-43-49-109.nys.biz.rr.com [72.43.49.109])
>         by balin.waakhond.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98EB17E8010
>         for <postmaster at vanderkooij.org>; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:49:25 +0200
> (CEST)
>  User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.1.0.080305
>  Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:49:23 -0400
>  Subject: Get more action today
>  From: bromee <ssodnieg at Oqlaw.Com>
>  To: "postmaster at vanderkooij.org" <postmaster at vanderkooij.org>
>  Message-ID: <BBF92F96.1%ssodnieg at Oqlaw.Com>
>  Thread-Topic: Get more action today
>  Thread-Index: AcicrGXHIUUszYsXR3ujRk1w1EMh9Q==
>  Mime-version: 1.0
>  Content-type: multipart/alternative;
>  ~        boundary="B_4144125777_14746"
>
>  And the mail log:
>
>  Apr 12 20:49:25 balin postfix/smtpd[32542]: connect from
>  rrcs-72-43-49-109.nys.biz.rr.com[72.43.49.109]
>  Apr 12 20:49:25 balin postfix/smtpd[32542]: E98EB17E8010:
>  client=rrcs-72-43-49-109.nys.biz.rr.com[72.43.49.109]
>  Apr 12 20:49:26 balin postfix/cleanup[6768]: E98EB17E8010:
>  message-id=<BBF92F96.1%ssodnieg at Oqlaw.Com>
>  Apr 12 20:49:26 balin postfix/qmgr[17060]: E98EB17E8010:
>  from=<ssodnieg at Oqlaw.Com>, size=1414, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>  Apr 12 20:49:26 balin postfix/local[19795]: E98EB17E8010:
>  to=<hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org>, orig_to=<postmaster at vanderkooij.org>,
>  relay=local, delay=0.52, delays=0.51/0/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent
>  (delivered to command: /usr/bin/procmail -Y)
>  Apr 12 20:49:26 balin postfix/qmgr[17060]: E98EB17E8010: removed
>  Apr 12 20:49:26 balin postfix/smtpd[32542]: disconnect from
>  rrcs-72-43-49-109.nys.biz.rr.com[72.43.49.109]
>
>
>  I was thinking wether or not it is an issue with the aliases. But I have
>  another alias to the same account which is not hampered by the issue.
>
>  Hmmmm. Having said that. The postmaster account is in effect a double
>  aliases. Postmaster -> root -> hvdkooij
>
>  But making it a direct alias did not matter at all. Other indirect
>  aliases do not suffer from this.
>
>  Hugo.
>
Hm, strange.... I'll have to test a bit .... But first I need get some
sleep... I've been working since 08.30 (which is about 17 hours back)
non-stop... Oracle/AIX/nitty-gritty little details playing havoc with
a simple upgrade that should've been 4hours work (including
everything...). Sigh.
Email is so much simpler:-):-). Well, apart from your mini-mystery ...:/
What I'm trying to say... is that in my current shape, I'm no real help to you:(

Cheers
-- 
-- Glenn
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