On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, David Sheryn wrote:
>
> > I will be decommissioning a system currently used as a mail hub during the
> > summer. I've been told that I have to send a reply to every message that gets
> > relayed by the system, advising of the impending demise. So I setup an
> > autoreply transport and director suitable for intercepting each message:-
> >
> > warning_t:
> > driver = autoreply
> > file = /usr/local/mail/warning.txt
> > file_expand
> > from = postmaster@???
> > to = $sender_address
> > user = mta
> > group = mta
> > subject = "Re: Your mail to ${local_part}"
> >
> > auto_warning_d:
> > driver = smartuser
>
> condition = ${if eq{$sender_address}{}{no}{yes}} <<<<<<< add this
>
> > transport = warning_t
> > no_verify
> > unseen
> >
> > It all *appears* to work just as planned, except that I get entries in the
> > main log file of the form
> >
> > 1998-07-02 14:40:56 0yrjbc-0005sW-00 <= mta@??? U=mta P=local S=430 for dhs
> > 1998-07-02 14:40:57 0yrjbd-0005sb-00 Error while handling error message 0yrjbd-0005sb-00: no recipient addresses
> > 1998-07-02 14:40:57 0yrjbc-0005sW-00 == dhs@??? T=warning_t defer (0): Failed to send message from warning_t transport (1)
> > 1998-07-02 14:40:58 0yrjbc-0005sW-00 => dhs@??? <dhs@???> D=punt_d T=remote_smtp H=mailswitch.city.ac.uk [138.40.12.12]
> >
> > despite which, the autoreply warnings get delivered perfectly OK. I'm not too
> > familiar with this part of Exim, so if anyone could comment on what's going on
> > or what I'm doing wrong, I'd be most grateful.
>
> You are not handling the case when the sender address is empty. See the
> fix above.
Aha! Many thanks.
DHS
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