From: mouss (usebsdfree.fr)
Date: Thu Feb 02 2006 - 03:42:02 CST

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Joshua Goodall a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> (summary: content_filter in a pickup service breaks sendmail -bv
> processing and postsuper -r; plea for any prior solution)
>
> I'm in the process of replacing sendmail with postfix at a large
> installation (>100,000 users, 20+ mail servers of varying function).
> One thing the engineers here are used to is sendmail -bv as a behaviour
> query mechanism.
>
> Unfortunately some of the new systems are configured with the
> following in master.cf:
>
> pickup fifo n - - 60 1 pickup
> -o content_filter=smtp:[internal-relay-host]:25
>
> This is to ensure that all locally-generated mail is passed through
> various external systems for filtering, scanning, list expansion,
> alternative delivery etc - even if it would normally be delivered
> locally.
>
> However this ruins sendmail -bv processing on mail store systems;
> everything is (erroneously) reported as going to the internal-relay-host.
> (Incidentally it also screws up postsuper -r, which is also done
> via the pickup service).
>
> I don't think I can specify an alternative pickup service, and pickup
> doesn't respond to any access(5) maps, so I haven't found a way to stick
> in a magic override.

you could use multiple instances (one postfix before the filter, and
another one after the filter). Then run sendmail -bv on the after the
filter instance (and you can restrict the submitters to only few accounts).

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