On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Phil Chambers wrote:
> I am completely mystified by something which has just started. I have various
> conditions in my system filter along the lines of:
>
> if $message_body matches "<pattern matching a virus>"
> then
> deliver vircheck
> seen finish
> endif
>
> These have been diverting virus-containing messages so that I can check for
> false-positives quite successfully for some time. Last week I added a new one for
> the Badtrans virus and it is producing quite different results!
Please post the actual code in your filter.
> 2001-12-10 01:17:35 vircheck@??? <vircheck@???> D=localuser
> defer (-10): <message filter@???> is a bad new address: missing
> or malformed local part (expected word or "<")
> *** Frozen
"message filter" is the pseudo "parent" of deliveries generated by a
system filter file. Somehow you seem to have got it made into an new
address by a smartuser.
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