Reindl Harald wrote: >>> Take a step back. Please describe the problem (why extra copies >>> of mail) instead of the solution (alias feature that excludes the >>> sender). >> >> I don't know how to better describe the problem. Maybe the following: >> >> John is a new junior employee in a company and Mark is a senior one. >> Mark wants to receive all John's e-mails as well. (But when Mark sends >> an e-mail to John, he doesn't want to get a copy of his own e-mail.) > > i would solve both on the MDA > > in dbmail as example i can set > "j...@example.com" -> deliver_to phyical user_id > "j...@example.com" -> alias to "m...@example.com" > > additionally a sieve-script could discrard messages > where from and to matches "m...@example.com" > > done in 5 minutes depending un your MDA > however, the MTA is in my opinion the totally wrong place > because even if you got it to work beware of multi-rcpt > messages which does not matter/exist in this form after > the MDA (dbmail, dovecot..) got the mail via LMTP
Thanks for the tip. I was not using MDA before. I have installed maildrop for that purpose and managed to configure it to discard emails where sender equals recipient. Marian
