On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Koustubha Kale <kmk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1. On the central server you are using vdelivermail to deliver it to a >> Maildir >> Check your .qmail-default file on the central server. >> vdelivermail adds a Delivered-To: header >> > > My .qmail-default on central server is > > | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox > How does it get delivered to a Maildir. Are you using an alias? > > >> 2. On the final branch server, you are again using vdelivermail to deliver >> the mail to the >> user's maildir. vdelivermail has a code is_looping() which checks if the >> header Delivered-To is present. The message "mail is looping" is in the >> vdelivermail code. SMTP has the message >> "message is looping (#5.4.6) which is totally different from the message >> shown in the bounce. >> > > The message never reaches the final branch server. Its bounced by the > central server. > > After reading this mail, I don't think that I have understood the setup. How are the mails then picked up from the above Maildir? Just to explain I also use similar setup for banks who have branches with intermittent connectivity. Typically, I don't use vdelivermail on the central server. Just the maildir in the .qmail-default i.e. /mail1/xxxx/autoturn/Maildir/ The delivered-To is inserted by the qmail-local program On the branch servers I have fetchmail which uses ODMR (atrn) to pull the mails from the central server and deliver it locally. ODMR causes maildirsmtp to run on /mail1/xxxx/autoturn/Maildir/ and strips of the Delivered-To header when submitting it to the local SMTP on the branch server. There is no issue with delivering as the Delivered-To is stripped off. But in your case you have to figure out the reason for the two Delivered-To: headers. There should be only one. !DSPAM:49f19f2a32686867214321!
