Re: mail archiving

• To: Russell Nelson <nelson@xxxxxxxxxx>, djb-qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: Re: mail archiving
• From: David Devine <devine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 14:37:05 +0000
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[snip]
>  > My problem is that the logging logs the email twice, once when it
>  > comes into the mail server, and once when it leaves.  
>  > 
>  > How can I get this to log only once instead of twice?
> 
> Check in the log file to see if the message-id was already in there?
> The "problem" you're seeing is that qmail considers your flow to be
> tranport->deliver->transport.  Have you tried removing your server's
> name from control/locals and using an entry in smtproutes to cause the
> mail to flow on to the internal server?
> 

Hmm, but wouldn't that open up my internal host to denial of service 
attacks, etc  since the external host grabs the mail and does some 
validity checking before forwarding the mail on?  I would also have 
to do all my alias expansions on my internal hosts, correct?

david

• mail archiving
• From: David Devine <devine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Re: mail archiving
• From: Russell Nelson <nelson@xxxxxxxxxx>

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