"mail forwarding loop" when Resending Email to Oneself.

2016-11-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
: ra...@inputplus.co.uk Message-Id: <20161116122946.9687c27...@orac.inputplus.co.uk> From: ra...@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy) foo I use nmh's dist(1) command to distribute it, using Resent-From, Resent-To, etc., headers. (IIRC this is similar to mutt's "bounc

Re: "mail forwarding loop" when Resending Email to Oneself.

2016-11-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Bill, > > If not, what's the closest to a specification? > > The documentation in the software that adds it. In this case > specifically the man page for postconf(5) I'd already read that, e.g. prepend_delivered_header, and it doesn't describe Postfix's logic for producing "mail forwarding loo

Re: Autoresponder?

2017-01-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, > So, how would I do this with only sending a single "bounce" to any > email address? Pipe to vacation(1), e.g. the user's ~/.forward: \foo, "|/usr/bin/vacation foo" The first keeps a copy of the email. vacation can be told to only send the reply once per N days for each recipient, def

Re: Autoresponder?

2017-01-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi @lbutlr, > > Yes, that makes sense. I hadn't thought of vacation. > > Ah.. slight hiccough, the email is a sql account, not a shell account, > so not .forward. No home directory for a .forward? How about /etc/aliases instead? -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy

Re: Antispamming with header checks and regexp

2017-02-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Istvan, > Noel Jones wrote: > > Remember that header_checks won't match encoded subjects We need to see the raw Subject header from the email that failed to match. It was probably encoded. $ scan -forma '%{subject}' . =?UTF-8?B?VGhpcyBpcyBzcGFtLgo=?= $ scan -forma '%(decode{subje

Re: cleanup writes incredible slowly to disk (very slow mail delivery)

2017-04-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi michael, > What happens is, that as soon as I write a bigger e-mail, the system > load goes up from 0 to around 2.5 and when the mail is send, goes back > to 0 again, but there is almost no cpu usage at all. So it should have > something to do with the I/O system I guess. iotop tells me that >

cleanup Adds From: Using Comment Syntax for GECOS Name.

2018-01-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Using mail(1) here, it submits to sendmail(1) without including a From: header. cleanup(8) add that in cleanup_message.c's cleanup_header_done_callback(). quote_822_local(state->temp1, *state->sender ? state->sender : MAIL_ADDR_MAIL_DAEMON); vstring_sprintf(state-

Re: cleanup Adds From: Using Comment Syntax for GECOS Name.

2018-01-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Wietse, > > Please consider having Postfix obey the RFC when generating From:, > > and other relevant headers. > > Please submit mail with correct headers. Please alter cleanup(8) to not make incorrect repairs thereby forcing those MUAs you consider errant to fix their ways and supply those co