On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 08:25, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> Here's an odd one.
> 
> I'm using the Amavis virus scanner middle-ware (acts as an adaptor 
> between various MTA's and various virus scanner apps). It has an option 
> to have it notify the recipient of a message when it finds a virus and 
> quarantines it (ie. "The mail server has detected a virus in an email 
> addressed to you and has dealt with it....").
> 
> The problem comes when the virus-infected email has a bogus "To;" 
> address in it, as sometimes happens. What I'm seeing is that, as the 
> mail admin, I'm getting a bunch of bounces telling me that 
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" can't be resolved when trying 
> to deliver the virus quarantine notification.
> 
> Does anybody already have a slick way of preventing this?
> 
> The only thing I can think of is to somehow feed Amavis the 
> "Envelope-To"... the address that appears in the "RCPT TO" line in the 
> SMTP delivery.


See dot-courier man page. I think that the RECIPIENT env var is
available to amavis if you run it from a .courier or .mailfilter

> 
> Which brings me to that part. Sometimes, I'll find out that I'm still on 
> some old mailing list from one of my old email addresses. I want to 
> unsubscribe, but I need to put the right "From" address in the 
> unsubscribe message. I don't *know* what my subscribed address is 
> because the "To:" line in all of the mailing list traffic says something 
> like "Mailing List Recipients" or whatever. The way I was able to solve 
> this with my old MTA (Exim) was to turn on a feature that had it add a 
> "Envelope-To:" header field which, as I mentioned above, contained the 
> address that was specified on the "RCPT TO" line in the SMTP delivery.
> 
> Is there a way to get Courier to give me the same kind of header line?
> 

Don't know if it's a built-in. You can add it with running "reformail -a
"Envelope-To: $RECIPIENT"





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