qmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I need to redirect all unrecognized messages for a virtual domain to a
> directory where another program(maildirsmtp) will catch it and send it to
> another mailserver.
>
> To let the unrecognized messages into the specified directory, i'm using
> the following .qmail-default command line:
>
> | preline -f sed -n p > ./some_user/Maildir/new/mail-"$$"
[...]
> I'd like to ask you: is this procedure dangerous? There is the possibility
> of loosing messages, receive attacks, or something I can't imagine now?
Yes. You said $$ was the PID; that can wrap (especially if you're on a system
with 15- or 16--bit PIDs), and you get a filename collision -- and lose mail.
> You can ask me " Why don't you use the "| forward ..." command?"
> Because it makes the $SENDER of the messages turn to the forwarded user
> when resending the messages - and this doesn't fit my needs. I need the
> original $SENDER of the messages preserved when sending the messages again
> with the maildirsmtp.
So why not do something like ``NEWSENDER="$SENDER" forward ...'' ?
Charles
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