Re: [Exim] headers_add and exim-filters

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Hans Morten Kind
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] headers_add and exim-filters
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Hans Morten Kind wrote:

> A forwardfile director is expanding a file to a local user and
> adding a header. The header is present after delivery with the
> localuser director. However the added header is not available
> to the user's exim-filter (~/.forward): it is not enclosed in
> $message_headers nor the $header_ variables. The header is
> also present if the filter calls the file_transport address_file
> with the save command.
>
> Seen on exim-3.14/Solaris7. Is there any way to do local
> filtering on headers added by a previous director?


I'm afraid not. All the added headers are stored with the address, and
only added to the message as it is being delivered. All the references
to headers access only those headers that came with the original
message.


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