[Dovecot] Sieve/pigeonhole with Exim and Dovecot LDA

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 21/05/13 01:38, Gedalya wrote:
> On 05/20/2013 07:37 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote:
>>
>> That's an interesting one. I've been running several sites  for a few
>> years now with exim in smart relay - without connection_max_messages =
>> 1 - and had no problems so far. Maybe it's because only few lan
>> clients are involved - or I've been lucky so far :-)
>
> The point is that the transport, and then in turn the authenticator are
> meant to potentially process more than one message in a single
> connection. What is the meaning of $sender_address or $header_*? The
> sender of which message? The headers from which message?
> If you do anything message-specific at this stage, you need to set this
> so only one message is sent per connection, so that message-specific
> variables can be meaningful.
That makes sense - I was just surprised it hasn't bitten me in the back 
so far. I'll amend the configs to process one message at a time in the 
future. I can only assume so far it was using the sender address of the 
first message to be processed?