Drew,
Though Anton uses exim not sendmail you must be onto something.
Only from the last logs I received I finally understand that his 'mailbox' [EMAIL PROTECTED] is actually a
userid, *not* an alias. Phwew, finally got that cleared up. Sorry Anton, I wish I knew russian to facilitate
our communication :)
When dbmail receives a message it *does* check the recipient address against the userid field, but it
apparently doesn't do this for deliver_to aliases. What's Aaron's take on this I wonder.
I still suspect that anton's problem will go away when he adds [EMAIL PROTECTED] as an alias to the user with
that very userid, because the external forwarding will then be by-passed.
True external forwarding is already not a problem. I confirmed this by having anton setup an external
forwarder to me. Sending mail there provides my with clean headers.
My current hypothesis is that there must be something in a combination between the line-endings as generated
by forward.c and the transport mechanism defined in exim.
I can cleanup forward.c but I want to understand this problem better (set up a test-case to reproduce it)
before I start mucking with that code.
Drew Northup wrote:
Ok, I am no rocket scientist on the delivery chain here, but let me make
a suggestion here, since I know a bit about the whole sendmail thing.
When you pipe a message that _already_has_headers_ in it through
sendmail with the -t option it will parse the message for headers. Now,
if you send a message to a recipient directly this is not normally an
issue--but if something other than sendmail itself forwards a message
_back_through_ sendmail with the -t option, it _should_ duplicate the
headers.
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 07:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Anton Nekhoroshikh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: DBMAIL Developers Mailinglist <dbmail-dev@dbmail.org>
Subject: Re[2]: [Dbmail-dev] double headers
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:43:26 +0400
Добрый день Paul,
Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 3:13:36 PM, you wrote:
Paul J Stevens> Anton Nekhoroshikh wrote:
Paul J Stevens> Well, if you have,
Paul J Stevens> ALIAS | DELIVER_TO
Paul J Stevens>
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Paul J Stevens> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul J Stevens> than to what deliver_to points [EMAIL PROTECTED] ???
Paul J Stevens> As I understand the delivery chain,
Paul J Stevens> the alias [EMAIL PROTECTED] *should* exist in
Paul J Stevens> the aliases table if that address
Paul J Stevens> should be delivered locally.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is mailbox
Paul J Stevens> what *kind* of mailbox, dbmail or
Paul J Stevens> /var/mail type? Because if it's a dbmail
Paul J Stevens> mailbox it should have *either* an
Paul J Stevens> entry in the dbmail_aliases table, *or* you
Paul J Stevens> are using dbmail-smtp from procmail
Paul J Stevens> and you're selecting the user on the
Paul J Stevens> commandline with the dbmail-smtp -u
Paul J Stevens> option. But even that route I've tested, and
Paul J Stevens> still no double headers.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailbox in dbmail
about what there is a recording in dmail_users
[EMAIL PROTECTED] alias to mailbox [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the same dbmail
machine
if send mail directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i see normal message
if send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i see message with double headers
I feel, that we each other do not understand, but the problem is
Paul J Stevens> I don't deny it. But I still have
Paul J Stevens> trouble understanding the exact route the
Paul J Stevens> message is travelling. I still don't
Paul J Stevens> know where mail ends up in the end. In de
Paul J Stevens> example.txt.dbg you sent all I see is
Paul J Stevens> mail coming in for [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is
Paul J Stevens> being forwarded *externally*. What
Paul J Stevens> happens after that is unclear. Using
Paul J Stevens> logger.sh we have already established
Paul J Stevens> that dbmail sends this mail correctly,
Paul J Stevens> without the double headers. The final
Paul J Stevens> insertion was not in the logfile.
ok i create new box in dbmail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and add alais to dbmail_alias [EMAIL PROTECTED] deliver_to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and i see double headers
see attached file(full log, two session)
See final insertion in attach (pid 11397)
It is strange, that through logger.sh we see the normal message.
You already probe to send messages on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul J Stevens> I did, and no double headers.
I create transport in exim via new version dbmail-smtp for this box.
Paul J Stevens> Which means exactly nothing to me
Paul J Stevens> since I don't use exim.
Paul J Stevens> You could try adding [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul J Stevens> as an alias to your userid. That way
Paul J Stevens> external forwarding won't be required.
Paul J Stevens> You could also try setting SENDMAIL
Paul J Stevens> to logger.sh and try to see if there's a
Paul J Stevens> difference between the different
Paul J Stevens> versions of dbmail-smtp.
in attache "test.eml" original message sended via "cat test.eml |
/usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t"
and "after_logger.eml" message created by logger.sh
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