Re: duplicate delivery elimination

From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Tue Nov 01 2005 - 07:14:48 EST

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    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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