From: Martin Orr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Bowie Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How would you prevent looping?  If you submit a new message
> > to sendmail, it will come back through amavis.  That could
> > create quite a nasty feedback loop.
> 
> If you are running at least Courier 0.49 and do not put "local" in
> /etc/courier/enablefiltering, then messages received locally via
> sendmail will not be sent to amavis.  I realise that this prevents
> scanning of locally-originating mail sent from the command line but
> including local in enablefiltering is not something I would recommend
> due to potential DoSes.

Ah... right.  I forgot that local and esmtp mail are filtered differently.
I don't have "local" in there now, so that solution is fine with me.

Just make sure that config setting is well documented!

Bowie


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