Releasing messages from quarantine

[Jason Ede]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Steve Freegard
> Sent: 11 November 2008 16:31
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Releasing messages from quarantine
> 
> Jason Ede wrote:
> >> Sure - in MailWatch conf.php set QUARANTINE_USE_SENDMAIL to 'true'
> and
> >> it will send the original message without modification.
> >>
> >
> > I've found that isn't always reliable (on mailwatch 1.0.4) if there
> are attachments on the email. Mailwatch says that the email has been
> released but nothing ever seems to reach the mail queue... I think its
> some form of memory issue to do with PHP? If can get it working
> reliably would be fantastic :-D
> >
> 
> Actually the problem isn't with MailWatch - but the way MailScanner
> handles blocked attachment or file types.
> 
> When MailScanner sends notices it uses the original Message-ID header
> and replaces the body with the notice.
> 
> Certain mail servers (Exchange, Zimbra etc.) have duplicate message
> prevention built-in and they use the Message-ID header to determine
> duplicates, so if you send multiple messages with the same Message-ID -
> the first message will be delivered and the rest will go to /dev/null
> or
> NUL if you're a Windoze user ;-)
> 
> For users of systems that do duplicate message checking you have to do
> something like the following:
> 
> cat /path/to/message | grep -Ev '^Message-ID:' | sendmail -toi
> 
> And your MTA should see the missing Message ID and create one for you.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Steve.

Steve,

That makes sense. Does that mean we have to manually inject the mail back into the queue (we use postfix) or can we just hack the release mechanism to do this for us?

Jason