Re: [Exim] Panic log error message I can't understand

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Jeffrey Goldberg
CC: Jonathan Haynes, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Panic log error message I can't understand
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:

> > functional_autoreply:
> >        driver = smartuser
> >        domains = "lsearch;TABLES/local_domains.common:\
> >                   lsearch;TABLES/local_domains.THISHOST"
> >        transport = autoresponders
> >        require_files = TABLES/forwardfiles/${local_part}.response
> >        user = exim
> >        unseen

> >
> >
> > which should run as the user exim (and there is not a file
> > xxxxx.response so nothing occurs) and appears to be working for anybody
> > else.


Consider what happens if ${local_part} ends up containing a colon.

> I did post to the exim list and PH asked me to look at all instances of
> require_file in the configuration. I was thinking of modifying the source
> where that message is logged to get it to log more information (ID of
> message, name of file it is trying to read, etc). As you know, this was
> something that I never got around to.


That would be the best approach.


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