Piping email to a PHP script results in two copies of the email being processed

[Chen]

Hi,

I have a PHP script on my server that intercepts incoming messages to certain addresses on the domain name. This is set up directly from valiases, i.e:

sales@domain.com: "|/home/myaccount/etc/newmail.php"
john@domain.com: john@doe.com
*: myaccount

This was working fine until we upgraded to CPanel 7 (or at least, that's when I think the problems started).

Right now, any messages sent to sales@domain.com are processed by newmail.php, but twice. I can tell from the log that the script is executed twice for the same message, so it's definitely not a problem with the script itself. However, if I change sales@domain.com to forward to some other address (not a pipe), it works fine and only one copy of the message is passed.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Chen

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[Chen]

After some more testing it seems that this is only a problem when forwarding messages from a particular address. If I change valiases to something like this:

john@domain.com: john@doe.com
*: "|/home/myaccount/etc/newmail.php"

Then it works fine, and the script only processes the email once. Of course, this puts the whole thing in a loop so it's not really a viable solution.

Thanks.

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