Thus spake Sam Varshavchik on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:00:50AM CDT > On Thu, 2 May 2002, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > IMHO your point is well taken. One rationale comes to mind for this. > > Proper operation of global filters is mission-critical to delivery of mail. > > If one or more of the filtering programs crash, then _no_ mail will be > > delivered to any account employing global filtering. So perhaps it's > > appropriate to have to be proactive to invoke global filtering. > > The actual rationale is that the default configuration is to whitelist > mail for the recipient, and that it's necessary for the recipient to > explicitly opt himself in for filtering, and allfilters is the unilateral > global mail filtering policy.
An intermediate solution would be helpful. Most mail accounts these days aren't user controlled, and users have little or no access to the account filespace, so the issue is one w. regard to administrative setup. My account setup scripts automatically create a .mailfiters/rcptfilter that returns an exit code of 99, and I'm doing a courier setup on a virgin system, so it's not so much of a problem here, but I see where an intermediate option might be very useful to someone doing an upgrade to courier on a production server. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190 | (The Roadie) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> http://www.fmp.com | | _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
