Hi everybody
I had similar effects with one of my scripts (I am tagging the emails sent
to the mailing list with [SOMETHING] in the subject).
>From time to time, I receive a message that was sent via the mailing list,
but it arrives without a tag in the subject line.
Unfortunately, I was not able to track it down (and to reproduce it
manually).
Kind regards
Lukas Frey
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-----Original Message-----
From: Goesta Smekal - EDV Dienstleisungen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 7:43 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: domain message filtering (again)
dear folks,
after successful development and testing of my attachment filter (posted
earlier in
this list and available for download from Lukas Freys site
http://www.web4free.ch/xmail) on my testserver (Slackware Linux, XMail 0.70)
I happily
installed it on one of my production machines (SuSe 7.0 Linux, XMail 0.69).
Then something strange happened: We host a mailing list there, say
[EMAIL PROTECTED] So I set up the file
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' containing the line
'"/var/MailRoot/bin/mailfilter"<TAB>"@@FILE"'.
Sending mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' worked fine, filtering out unwanted
attachments. BUT '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' was able to circumvent the filter.
!?!? Is
XMail case sensitive when matching filter rules ? (IMHO this would be a
flaw)
So I set up some more filters, for 'MailList@...' 'MAILlist@.." etc. you
get the point ...
Short after that a posting to the list (ironically announcing the new
filter) led to
desaster. XMail delivered the message multiple times and then died. It did
NOT log the
sent copies to logs/smtp... . The only way to return to normal operation was
'rm -r
/var/MailRoot/spool/*' and (for safety) remove all but one of the filter
.tab files.
How ? Why ? Why me ?? ;-)
any hint welcome
Goesta
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