Hi,
I am new to exim and am trying to set-up a vacation facility for our
installation (v3.16). I have been trying to do this using .forward files
and filtering rules in a test mail account home directory. I have
created the following .forward file which was copied practically
verbatim from the User's mail filtering doc.
# Exim filter
if personal then
seen mail # Seen has been added here
to $reply_address
subject "Re: $h_subject:"
file $home/.vacation.msg
once_repeat 10d
endif
if error_message then finish endif
I also tried:
# exim filter
if personal then vacation endif
For each of these I get:
>exim -bf new-filter < mail.txt
Sender = user@???
Recipient = root@???
Testing Exim filter file new-filter
Filter processing ended:
Filtering did not set up a significant delivery.
Normal delivery will occur.
I added "seen" before the mail command in the 1st filter rule and
also tried placing it at the before the endif. This hasn't effected any
change. I have looked at the other messages regarding the vacation
in the archive and people seem to have set up transports
specifically for vacation which have the "unseen" option. I am
guessing a little but I think I need to update my exim.conf to make
this work, would that seem correct? Below is an extract from the
exim.conf transport and directors sections: Can anyone offer any
advice here?
Thanx in advance.
local_delivery
driver = appendfile
file = /var/mail/${local_part}
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
return_path_add
group = mail
mode = 0660
address_pipe:
driver = pipe
return_output
address_file:
driver = appendfile
delivery_date_add
envelope_to_add
return_path_add
address_reply:
driver = autoreply
Directors:
userforward:
driver = forwardfile
file = .forward
no_verify
no_expn
check_ancestor
filter
file_transport = address_file
pipe_transport = address_pipe
reply_transport = address_reply
localuser:
driver = localuser
transport = local_delivery
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Dermot Paikkos * dermot@???
Network Administrator @ Science Photo Library
Phone: 0207 432 1100 * Fax: 0207 286 8668
