On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, davidturetsky wrote:
> 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?
Because the RCPT TO: command specifies part of the SMTP envelope, not
RFC-822 header lines, and should contain actual email addresses
only. Since they wont show up in the headers when the recipients get
them, it shouldnt matter for your case..
>
> 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?
exim -bp will show all messages waiting in exim's queue..
>
> 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 . . .
>
>
>
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