Re: [Exim] Mailing lists

Yes, I was using a real address, but 'postmaster' and 'root' nevertheless
showed up in the spool containing error messages

Why are 'real names' precluded? Isn't this just a 'simple' substitution?
Such a proscription is surely not a limitation of your script. What problem
is presented with exim?

Speaking of spools, in designing for a large volume of messages, I enabled
the multiple spool feature. After first poring through 62 spools to find
pending mail, I then did rmdir /etc/.../* and got a message pointing me to
remaining files. Is there a cleaner approach?

As for your scripts, I'm inclined to maintain that approach as a live option
in addition to exim/aliases. It seems to me both approaches have a
particular merit, although I'm unable to articulate exactly why

David

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave C." <djc@???>
To: "davidturetsky" <davidturetsky@???>
Cc: "exim-users" <exim-users@???>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Mailing lists


>
. . . You should always use
> fully-qualified addresses in your case (eg, always specify the full
> domain with any email address you are sending from or to) since exim
> isn't going to have any real 'local domains' to work with.
>
> Aha. I see one problem. You used the quotes '' instead of the quotes ``
> in the following line of my script:
>
> Your have:
> > for x in 'cat /etc/exim/lists/free'; do
>
> It should be:
> > for x in `cat /etc/exim/lists/free`; do
>
> The backtick has a special meaning to the bash shell - it tells it to
> run the command contained therein, and replace it with whatever output
> it makes. Make sure that that list contains only the functional-part of
> email addresses, and no "real name" or "comment" parts . . .