Re: [Exim] freeze_tell_mailmaster not working?

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Dave C. wrote:
>
> > Now, I want to be notified when it does so. No problem, I thought,
> > freeze_tell_mailmaster is the trick for me. So I get it set, and set
> > the errors_to address to my address, send a HUP to the daemon, and then
> > go on to try it out - and ACK.. It doesnt work.. No mention made in the
> > logs about freeze_tell_mailmaster, or of any messages being sent.. Am I
> > doing something wrong here or is exim?
>
> Hmm. I have just tried to do the same thing, and it all worked. Of
> course, I tried it with the latest test release, not 3.15. Things have
> changed in the way Exim handles system filter files, but looking at the
> 3.15 has not convinced me that there was previously a bug, though of
> course there may have been.
>
> But wait! You said you set errors_to address to you. Is "you" by any
> chance "djc"? In that case, you won't get a message. The reason is that
> your test message is addressed to "djc". Exim is freezing a message that
> is addressed to "djc". It is very paranoid about possible loops; one of
> its paranoid actions is not to send the freeze_tell_mailmaster message
> if the mailmaster address is one of those that is in the original
> message.

Aha! That is in fact the case - I will try changing that and seeing
what happens..

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