From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Tue Nov 01 2005 - 07:14:48 EST
Arthur de Jong:
> Hi,
>
> We are currently in the process (almost finished) of setting up postfix
> (we're moving from sendmail) but there is one major issue left: we have
> a lot of internal aliases that we send mail to and also occasionally cc
> people on an alias (or have aliases with common members).
>
> E.g.:
> alias1: user1 user2
> alias2: user2 user3
>
> postfix tries to deliver to user2 twice (using postfix 2.1.5-9 from
> Debian/sarge)
Fixed in Postfix 2.3. None of the duplicate filters below
are applicable for local(8) nested alias expansion.
Wietse
> These FAQs have some bad news:
> http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#duplicate
> http://www.seaglass.com/postfix/faq.html#aldbl
>
> But the configuration docs are a little more positive:
> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#enable_original_recipient
> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#duplicate_filter_limit
>
> The documentation is however not really clear which values are needed to
> eliminate duplicate delivery. I have tried several combinations (also of
> local_destination_recipient_limit) but haven't got it working yet.
> Should I add an extra call to cleanup before delivery (cleanup should
> eliminate duplicate envelope recipient addresses) or is this done. Does
> anyone have a working configuation that filters out duplicates? Would
> upgrading to postfix 2.2.4 help?
>
> I'm not very familiar with postfix yet, but I'm learning so bear with
> me. If I should RTFM, please point me in the right direction. Thanks for
> all responses.
>
> --
> -- arthur de jong - - west consulting b.v. --
>
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