(Apologies if you see this twice - I have reason to suspect the first
copy never made it as far as the list...)
First, a couple of what are probably wish list items:
I've noticed what I think might be a little oddity with the definition
of 'personal' in mail filters. The condition it uses for testing for
personal mail starts:
$header_to: contains $local_part@$domain and...
The problem I had with it is that I use multiple personal mailboxes,
using local-part suffixes, and none of those are recognised as
personal by the 'personal' condition. Perhaps, for that, it might be
better to define it as
$header_to: contains $local_part_prefix$local_part$local_part_suffix
?
Secondly, I'm using the following section in my system filter file to
try to cut down on the amount of junk mail I receive:
if $header_x-uidl: is not "" then
log "message $message_id from $header_from: to $header_to: failed."
log " x-uidl header indicates probable spam."
log "--------------------------------------------------------------------"
fail
endif
This works for some of it, but a couple of messages have been getting
through which do possess the telltale X-UIDL: header, but which have
it blank. Is there any way to tell the difference between an empty
header and a nonexistent one in a filter file?
Lastly, and rather embarrassingly, there's one quirk which - despite
much reading of manuals - I'm still not sure whether it is the
intended behaviour or a bug I've accidentally intoduced into the OS/2
port.
I'm using the following .forward file to, theoretically, send a single
autoreply to anyone sending me mail who I haven't already spoken
with:
# Exim filter
# Drop out on error
if error_message then finish endif
# Ignore list and autoresponder mail
if $header_precedence: is "junk" or
$header_precedence: is "list" then finish endif
# Handle personal e-mail
if ( personal alias sloth@??? alias sloth@??? alias narg@??? ) or
( $header_to: contains $local_part$local_part_suffix@$domain and
$header_from: does not contain server@ and
$header_from: does not contain daemon@ and
$header_from: does not contain root@ and
$header_subject: does not contain "circular" and
$header_precedence: does not contain "bulk" )
then
# Send an automagic reply to all e-mails from people I haven't already dealt with
unseen mail subject "Your message for $local_part received at $tod_bsdinbox"
expand file "/home/avatar/.autoreply.all-new-messages"
log "/home/avatar/.autoreply.all-new-messages.log"
once "/home/avatar/.autoreply.all-new-messages.once"
endif
The problem, though, again comes with the local-part suffix. When
someone sends mail to my address with a bare username,
<avatar@???>, everything works as expected - an
autoreply is sent, and the mail is delivered to my mailbox.
However, when I receive mail to an address with a local-part suffix,
such as the <avatar-usenet@???> I use for posting to
Usenet, the autoreply is still sent, but the mail isn't delivered.
(Relevant Debugging output for both cases included below, if it's needed.)
Is this expected? Do I need to attach an explicit 'deliver' to the end
to make it work?
Alistair
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For a delivery to 'avatar@???':
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1091 bytes read from /home/avatar/.forward
file is a filter file
Filter: start of processing
Filter: condition is false: error_message
Filter: condition is false: $header_precedence: is "junk" or
$header_precedence: is "list"
Filter: condition is true: ( personal alias sloth@??? alias sloth@??? alias narg@??? ) or
( $header_to: contains $local_part$local_part_suffix@$domain and
$header_from: does not contain server@ and
$header_from: does not contain daemon@ and
$header_from: does not contain root@ and
$header_subject: does not contain "circular" and
$header_precedence: does not contain "bulk" )
Filter: mail to: sloth@???
subject: Your message for avatar received at Tue Dec 16 19:58:35 1997
file: /home/avatar/.autoreply.all-new-messages (expanded)
log: /home/avatar/.autoreply.all-new-messages.log
once: /home/avatar/.autoreply.all-new-messages.once
Filter: at end "delivered" is false
Filter: end of processing
userforward director generated >sloth@???
pipe, file, or autoreply
userforward director generated avatar@???
userforward director succeeded for avatar
transport: <none>
opened DB file /exim/spool/db/retry: flags=0
unique = \avatar@???
dbfn_read: key=D:avatar@???
avatar@???: queued for directing
unique = >sloth@???:avatar@???
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
directing avatar@???
calling system_real_names director
system_real_names director: file = /etc/realnames search type = 48
file=/etc/realnames query=avatar
search_open found (0) /etc/realnames cached
search_find: file="/etc/realnames" type=0 key="avatar" partial=-1
internal_search_find: file="/etc/realnames" type=0 key="avatar"
file lookup required for avatar in /etc/realnames
system_real_names director failed for avatar:
calling system_aliases director
system_aliases director: file = /etc/aliases search type = 48
file=/etc/aliases query=avatar
search_open found (0) /etc/aliases cached
search_find: file="/etc/aliases" type=0 key="avatar" partial=-1
internal_search_find: file="/etc/aliases" type=0 key="avatar"
file lookup required for avatar in /etc/aliases
system_aliases director failed for avatar:
lists director skipped: prefix mismatch
real_localuser director skipped: prefix mismatch
pgpkey_localuser director skipped: prefix mismatch
userforward director skipped: previously directed avatar@???
calling localuser director
localuser director succeeded for avatar
transport: local_delivery
After directing:
Local addresses:
avatar@???
>sloth@???
Remote addresses:
Failed addresses:
Addresses to be routed:
Deferred addresses:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For a delivery to 'avatar-usenet@???'
----------------------------------------------------------------------
1091 bytes read from /home/avatar/.forward
file is a filter file
Filter: start of processing
Filter: condition is false: error_message
Filter: condition is false: $header_precedence: is "junk" or
$header_precedence: is "list"
Filter: condition is true: ( personal alias sloth@??? alias sloth@??? alias narg@??? ) or
( $header_to: contains $local_part$local_part_suffix@$domain and
$header_from: does not contain server@ and
$header_from: does not contain daemon@ and
$header_from: does not contain root@ and
$header_subject: does not contain "circular" and
$header_precedence: does not contain "bulk" )
Filter: mail to: sloth@???
subject: Your message for avatar received at Tue Dec 16 19:59:39 1997
file: /home/avatar/.autoreply.all-new-messages (expanded)
log: /home/avatar/.autoreply.all-new-messages.log
once: /home/avatar/.autoreply.all-new-messages.once
Filter: at end "delivered" is false
Filter: end of processing
userforward director generated >sloth@???
pipe, file, or autoreply
userforward director generated avatar-usenet@???
userforward director succeeded for avatar
transport: <none>
opened DB file /exim/spool/db/retry: flags=0
unique = avatar-usenet@???
avatar-usenet@??? is a duplicate address: discarded
unique = >sloth@???:avatar-usenet@???
After directing:
Local addresses:
>sloth@???
Remote addresses:
Failed addresses:
Addresses to be routed:
Deferred addresses:
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