RE: [vps-mail] Forwarding back to virtmap file

["Bennett Lanford" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, April 12, 2005 4:47 pm, Jim Smith said:
> I'm not sure that I could even create a loop. The problem I've got now is
> that the mail from maryjane@xxxxxxxxxx gets virtmap'd to user01, run
> through the procmail rules and sent out as $LOGNAME@xxxxxxxxxx which in
> another virtmap entry translates back from user01@xxxxxxxxxx to
> maryjane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx which goes to their exchange server.
> However, when procmail sends it back through the virtmap, it views it as a
> loop and stops the process. No error message beyond, "This account is
> currently not available." and no errors reflected in the log files. If I
> knew what was cluing it in that it might be a loop, I could munge that
> line in the headers when it goes through procmail but I'm stumped.

I must confess that I haven't followed this thread very closely, so I
don't have many constructive ideas (yet.) It might be worth pointing out
that in many (most?) cases, modifying a header in the message itself has
no effect on where an e-mail is sent. The destination is set during the
SMTP conversation (with the "RCPT TO:" command). Any correspondence
between the "envelope" sender (specified by the RCPT TO: command) and the
To: (etc.) headers at the top of the message is purely coincidental.

-- 
Bennett Lanford <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

There are 10 kinds of people: those that understand binary and those that
don't.
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