On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Adrian Hicks wrote:
> I have the following setup:
> * XMail 1.17 on Debian Woody (3.0)
> * One real domain
> * Around 80 accounts
> * Traffic is around 700 messages a day
>
> I have written a filter (bash script) to remove spam, messages with .exe
> etc. attachments, content we don't want, and some other undesirable
> messages, plus record details of all mail that goes through the server.
>
> Recently I've had one staff member complain that a message they sent to
> another staff member didn't get through. This is an internal message
> handled only on the one XMail machine.
>
> This may have been caused by my script, however I had run virtually the same
> script on XMail 1.9 & hadn't had any reports of missing mail that I
> couldn't explain.
>
> This time all the log files (smtp, smail) show that the message was received
> from the sender/s MUA, and my filter script has captured details of the
> message to its log file so the message was in the spool folders. Just
> seems that it didn't get to the recipient's mailbox. The server wasn't
> busy at the time; previous message was half a minute earlier.
Did the smail log show the delivery of the message (LOCAL) ?
> Also, the log file for my filter script has two entries for that message and
> for several messages afterwards (example below). Normally there's only one
> entry for each message. I've checked further & there are several places
> where my script's log files have two entries for each message. This is
> also something that didn't happen when the script was running on 1.9.
If the filter.{in, out}.tab select two filters that does the same thing,
this can happen.
- Davide
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