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Author: Jeffrey Goldberg
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To: Tibor Koleszar
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] stupid question about golbal filtering and forwarding
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Tibor Koleszar wrote:

> I've written a litte rule into the global filter file, which is forwarding
> mails.
>
>
> if ${lookup{$recipients}lsearch{/etc/mail/forward}{$value}} is not ""
> then
> headers add "X-Forwarder-by: mail.oldwnet.hu at $tod_log"
> deliver "${lookup{$recipients}lsearch{/etc/mail/forward}{$value}}"
> endif
>
> And the /etc/mail/forward file is a simple lseach foo: foo type file.
> So,it works nicely is there is just one recipient in $recipients variable.
> If there are more, lookup cant handle it. Any other way to make a
> pre-interpreted global forwarding?


Why is this being done via a filter file? Wouldn't it be better to just
set up a specific director/transport pair which adds the header?

-j

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