From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Sun Oct 02 2005 - 10:43:18 CDT

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On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 03:55:38PM +0200, mouss wrote:

> >is there any patch available that would make vda deliver to every
> >maildir resulting from database query, not only single one like it
> >does now?
>
> why not use an MDA such as maildrop? this way you can do whatever you want.
>

Because this would be wrong. A delivery agent performing final delivery
to mailboxes must do so *atomically* for each queue file recipient,
because Postfix will either consider the delivery successful or failed
for each queue file recipient, there is no "half-delivered" state.

If the delivery involves storing the message in multiple mailboxes, there
is a strong possibility of partial success (quotas, file size limits, ...)
so each mailbox needs a separate recipient in the queue file, i.e. use
virtual(5) to expand and then virtual(8) or similar to do 1-to-1 delivery.

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        Viktor.

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