On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Peter Farmer wrote: > I run a large spamtrap domain, which has 1000+ valid aliases pointing > to a single mailbox, as can be expected with spam, a lot of the mails > have multiple recipients and subsequently multiple copies of the > message get delivered to my mailbox as can be seen my the following > log entries: > > Mar 6 10:30:42 adm01 exim: 2007-03-06 10:30:18 1HOWvt-0004IL-9n => > /opt/mail/hbmail.com/spamtrap/Maildir/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=spamtrap > T=address_directory > Mar 6 10:30:42 adm01 exim: 2007-03-06 10:30:18 1HOWvt-0004IL-9n => > /opt/mail/hbmail.com/spamtrap/Maildir/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=spamtrap > T=address_directory
This must be dependent on the way you have configured the routers. > Is it possible to have only one copy of the message delivered to the > mailbox as this would save cpu cycles when processing mails for abuse > reporting and bayes learning through not processing dupes. What you need to do is to have all the aliases expand to another alias, and then route that alias to a file. The duplicates should then collapse. (I'm guessing that you route each alias directly to the file.) -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
