Re: .mailfilter rule mysteriously not followed

Thanks....everything related to mail delivery has been compiled from
source on the NAS and am invoking maildrop via a line in fetchmail. Am
running postfix, dovecot, fetchmail and maildrop. Maybe I don't need all
these. Would prefer not to be using any more than I have to and have a
nagging concern that postfix may have something to do with this problem.

Sorry, the 'mdtest5' entry should have read 'mdtesting'...it missed my
'search and replace'

Is there anything in the mail headers that may be confusing the
.mailfilter config? My regex knowledge is rudimentary

Also, can I have a howto reference passing an email on standard input?

Thanks
Michael


Dr Michael Daly writes:

> Funnily enough, there's no entry at all in maildrop's log for these
> anomalous mail deliveries from my Dallas based server...the only
> maildrop
> log entries I find relate to mail delivered from Internode. It seems to
> suggest maildrop is being bypassed for mail from Dallas?

Correct.

Just because maildrop is installed on a server, doesn't mean that all mail
will automatically, and magically, be delivered by maildrop. It is
necessary
to explicitly configure whatever handles incoming mail, namely your mail
server, to have it hand off mail to be delivered by maildrop.


well....I have a line in fetchmail which invokes maildrop

It's possible that if you're installing a pre-built package that someone
else made, that the package takes care of it. But, if you are building and
instlaling maildrop yourself, that's going to be your job to do that.
There is not standard and uniform way that every mail server in the world
gets configured. Every one of them is different. maildrop's installation
script does not attempt to figure out what mail server is installed on the
server, and how to configure it. That's something that needs to be done by
hand.

>                                                           Using the -V
> option for maildrop does not seem to help - I understand that Verbose
> mode
> does not work when maildrop runs in delivery mode?

Correct. But you can simply save an email message in a file, and run
maildrop from the command line, passing the email message on standard
input,
with the -V option, to see what maildrop will do with it.

But that assumes that maildrop actually gets used to deliver the mail, and
you are suggesting that it's not, so this point is moot.

> This is the fetchmail log for a message received by [email protected]
> (as sent from Internode, as it happens):
>

> fetchmail: Trying to connect to 127.0.0.1/25...connected.
> fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[email protected]> SIZE=1357
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 Ok
> fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<mdtest5@localhost>

This shows that fetchmail, after downloading your message, connected to
your
mail server on port 25, and dumped the message on your mail server,
addressing it to <mdtest5@localhost>.

There's no evidence here that maildrop gets invoked, in any way.
Presumably
your mail server will take the message, and invoke maildrop to deliver it.
But, that's not shown here.

Furthermore, your other message, that claims that it gets delivered
correctly, indicates, in its headers, that it was delivered to
"mdtesting",
not "mdtest5".

> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> finally, /opt/etc/fetchmailrc has:
> poll mydomain.com.au service 110 protocol pop3 uidl
> user "lists" password "XXXXXX" is "mdtesting" here
>
> poll mail.internode.on.net service 110 protocol pop3 uidl
> user "michaeldaly" password "XXXXXX" is "mdtesting" here
>
>
> Anyway...anyadvice would be helpful!

I don't know anything much about fetchmail, I don't use it, but I do not
see
"mdtest5" mentioned anywhere here, so it beats me where fetchmail got it
from. Furthermore, again, the big missing piece here is how maildrop is
involved at all, since I don't see anything that suggests that maildrop
gets
used for local mail delivery.

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