amavisd-release not working when message contains empty X-Envelope-To-Blocked

[Andreas Neustifter]

Hi Mark!

On 10 October 2011 17:53, Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+amavis at ijs.si> wrote:
> Andi,
>
>> I discovered a bug that prevents amavisd-release from working on
>> messages that have an empty X-Envelope-To-Blocked line in the headers.
>>
>> To avoid duplication I posted details and a patch at
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/848055, would you kindly review it and
>> apply as appropriate?
>
> The purpose of X-Envelope-To-Blocked is to provide a list of recipients
> which did not receive a message - thus it provides a default list of
> recipients for a release. Consider a case of having some recipients
> which want to receive spam (spam lovers, or with a higher kill level),
> and some who don't want to receive such mail, all appearing as
> recipients or some multi-recipient message. When releasing such
> message from a quarantine, it only makes sense to send it to
> those who have not received it in the first place - the rest already
> have it. If the X-Envelope-To-Blocked list happens to be empty,
> it is not a special case, it just happens that all recipients of the
> message already had it delivered. Treating it as a special case would
> break the semantics of a default list of recipients for a release.

Okay, thats true, thanks for the in-depth clarification and sorry for
the half-baked bug report.

> If you want to release a message to one or more recipient regardless of
> whether they already had this message delivered, you can provide an
> explicit list of recipients on a command line to amavisd-release, or
> provide a list from a file or pipe:
>
> Usage:  $ amavisd-release mail_file [secret_id [alt_recip1 alt_recip2 ...]]
>  or to read request lines from stdin:  $ amavisd-release -

That's what I need, great, thanks!

Andi