[Mimedefang] Side effect of stream_by_recipient

[David F. Skoll]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Jim Hatfield wrote:

> This might be obvious to many but it wasn't to me. If you
> use stream_by_recipient, the original mail is accepted. So if
> you subsequently call action_bounce, bounce mails get generated.

Right.  That's a limitation of SMTP.

> So my current take is, if SpamAssassin says it's spam, loop through
> the Recipients array, and use delete_recipient for each address
> in the "want it rejected" list.

That will work.

> Then what I want to do is to call action_bounce if there are no
> recipients left. But how can I do that if delete_recipient doesn't
> change the Recipients array?

You need to do your own book-keeping.  You could (for example) keep a
count of the original number of recipients and decrement it each time
you delete one.  If it goes down to zero, then bounce.

Regards,

David.