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From: Rufus <rste@???>
To: exim <exim-users-request@???>
Date: Friday, July 10, 1998 1:50 PM
Subject: Are the commands mail and vacation mutually exclusive?
>I see nothing in the spec to say that I cannot have both the commands
>vacation and mail in one filter, so that both send mails, but it seems to
be
>the case. Does this mean I have missed something in the specification, or
>isthere some way I can get exim to use both. When I test the filter it
seems
>to say it will do both:-
>
>I have a .forward file that either looks like this
>#exim filter
>mail file "/usr/home/gc038cv/.tester" text "Your email has been received by
>Beec
>hwood Recruitment and will be processed as soon as possible."
>vacation
>deliver rste@???
>
>Or like this
>
>#exim filter
>vacation
>mail file "/usr/home/gc038cv/.tester" text "Your email has been received by
>Beec
>hwood Recruitment and will be processed as soon as possible."
>deliver rste@???
>
>when I run either of them with the -bf option to test the filter they say
>they are doing the right thing, that is sending .vacation.msg once and
>.tester every time, and delivering the message to my address. What actually
>happens when I mail the account is it does whichever of the mail and
>vacation commands comes first, and then does the deliver. What I would
>ideally like to do is have the mail command run if and only if the vacation
>command doesn't. In practice I would be happy if they both ran, and I got
>either two returns and a deliver or one return and a deliver depending
>whether I had mailed before.
>
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