Re: [courier-users] couriermlm bug, bouncing messages with 'Help' eve

[Sam Varshavchik]

Fred Drueck writes:


Hello Everyone,

I'm afraid that I'm complaining about some un-expected / misleading
behavior in the courier tools again.

When NOBOZOS=1 is set on a couriermlm list it will reject a message
that starts *any* line with a keyword.  E.g.

cat 

[courier-users] couriermlm bug, bouncing messages with 'Help' eve

[Fred Drueck]

Hello Everyone,

I'm afraid that I'm complaining about some un-expected / misleading
behavior in the courier tools again.

When NOBOZOS=1 is set on a couriermlm list it will reject a message
that starts *any* line with a keyword.  E.g.

cat 

SEO 337, Office Phone: 312.996.5122

Department of Math, Statistics, and Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
851 South Morgan Street
Suite: 320 Science and Engineering Offices (M/C 249)
Chicago Illinois 60607-7045, USA

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Re: [courier-users] locking $HOME (~) directories (temporarily deferring delivery)

[Sam Varshavchik]

Fred Drueck writes:


I'm glad that you're going to correct either courier or the courier
documentation so the behavior regarding the sticky bit is consistent.


The online documentation was updated.


Ultimately, I have decided to forego locking home directories and have
rewritten my admin scripts to make atomic changes to .courier files,
(write tempfile, then mv tempfile to replace the current .courier
file) which should prevent me from having to lock home directories.


This is the correct approach in any case. A locking-based strategy should  
always be the last resort, only if no other alternatives are possible.  
Locking is fragile. If the process gets killed, the directory remains  
locked, interrupting mail delivery.


A file rename-based solution is the same general approach for implementing a  
wide variety of critical functions, that has been battle-tested for decades.  
The kernel guarantees that the file rename will either succeed, or not  
succeed. There is no compromise. Renaming to replace an existing file is  
guaranteed to either succeed or not succeed, and whatever is the outcome  
either the original file remains in place, or the new file renamed in place  
of the original file remains, and at all times the pathname resolves to  
either the old or the new file.


This is the basis for all maildir-based operations, where mail integrity is  
critical. sqwebmail does this to update the .mailfilter file, that maildrop  
reads. The process of inserting a new mail into the mail queue is also based  
on renaming a file, as an atomic operation that commits the new mail into  
the mail queue. The list goes on. This is how these things must be done.


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Re: [courier-users] locking $HOME (~) directories (temporarily deferring delivery)

[Fred Drueck]

Hi Sam,

Thanks for your reply, I'm sorry I haven't noticed it until just
recently.  I do not seem to be properly getting mail from the
sourceforge mailing lists.  I've had to go through and read the
lists web archives to get anything.

I'm glad that you're going to correct either courier or the courier
documentation so the behavior regarding the sticky bit is consistent.

Ultimately, I have decided to forego locking home directories and have
rewritten my admin scripts to make atomic changes to .courier files,
(write tempfile, then mv tempfile to replace the current .courier
file) which should prevent me from having to lock home directories.

Best regards,
-Fred

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