Re: Multidrop retrievers: run filter before sorting ?

Bigaunti - Arcor <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> What the filter is doing:
[...]
> - searches in the remaining header for occurances of the sequence "
> for<[email protected]> "

Hrm - you're looking for "for <email-address>", not just the email address
itself?  Are you looking this in Received: headers or something else?

It sounds like you're basically guessing at who the envelope recipient address
might have been.  It's not ideal, but getmail has the MultiGuesser destination
class for this.  It will look at the recipient info header fields (outlined in
doc) until it finds a match, else it will fall back to a default recipient
config.

I think you should be using that.

> > This is a huge red flag.
> 
> Indeed I worded it clumsy

Not quite what I meant.  I mean you seem to be doing your
fake-a-recipient-header bit to cause getmail to set %(recipient) when invoking
MultiSorter, which is deliberately disabling a critical "safety circuit" in
getmail.  %(recipient) is deliberately not set in this case; MultiSorter is
intended only to be used with a domain mailbox, which you no longer have.

You haven't provided your getmailrc file or your header-munging script, so I
can't be precise in how you might shoot yourself in the foot trying to do
that.

Your proposed solution is potentially dangerous, so I'm not interested in
changing getmail to support it.

Charles
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