Re: [Exim] procmail/forward

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Autor: Jeffrey Goldberg
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A: Leonardo Boselli
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] procmail/forward
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Leonardo Boselli wrote:

> In the current debian distribution in exim.conf has been added a
> director for procmail.
> This director is soon before .forward director.
> I think it is an error.
> Apart for this: if there is .procmailrc this is always run.
> even putting the .forward ahead.


I sort of had a similar problem which I ignored. I used to manage a
system that allowed both .forward and forward.txt in users' directories.
While I had forward.txt first, I realized at one point that if a user had
both a forward.txt file and a .forward file that both would get processed.

I wondered whether there was a quick fix and decided that I didn't see
one, so took the view that if a user had both then they deserved what they
get.

You could put in one of the director a condition that checks for the
non-existence one a file, or you could use the next_director option to
say that if the first one is used, to jump to some other one. Note, I
haven't actually done either of these and my comments are speculative.

> How can i arrange the things in a way that if procmail do not
> discard a message, this remain in /var/spool/mail/user ??


That is a procmail question. I try to avoid procmail if I can. Check the
procmail documentation, and there are plenty of FAQs and examples for
procmail around.

-j

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