On 30-Mar-01 at 08:32:41 Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, John Horne wrote:
>
>> A quick question for you to think about :-) Without all the gory details
>> what I require is an autoreply transport which updates the 'log' and
>> 'once' files, but which does not actually send any message back to the
>> user.
>>
>> I've had 2 thoughts on this - one is to try and set the sender as being
>> the 'nobody' address, which equates to ditching the message to
>> /dev/null. This doesn't seem to work because exim remembers the
>> original sender and seems to send the autoreply to them.
>
> Can you give more configuration details? If you set the "to" option on
> an autoreply, it should send the message to that address, which you can
> arrange to be one that is thrown away.
>
Yes, I tried setting 'to' and it was very close to what I wanted. However, in
the log file it then puts in the 'nobody' address as the To: header, whereas
I want the original recipient instead. It may sound picky, but I'm trying to
get two systems to maintain identical 'log' files without having to do
something like copy them from one system to another. In that respect one log
file having the true recipient and the other having the 'nobody' address is
not identical. Ulitmately it may be something we can live with.
Needless to say we are trying to do something not that usual I suspect! :-)
However the transport and director I last tested were (lines wrapped by me):
jhtrans: (transport)
transport_filter = /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/cat - >/dev/null && /usr/bin/touch
/tmp/jhcopy"
driver = autoreply
subject = ${if def:h_Subject: {Re: ${quote:${escape:$h_Subject:} } } {I am
on vacation} }
log = /tmp/log
once = /tmp/once
to = nobody@MASTER_MAILHUB (equates to nobody@???)
from = $original_local_part@$original_domain
return_message
user = exim
jhredi2: (director)
no_expn
domains = PLYMOUTH
local_parts = jhorne
condition = ${if or { { ! eq {MAILHUB_TYPE} {master} } \
{ ! eq {$h_X-UoP-redicopy:} {true} } \
{ match {$h_precedence:} {(?i)junk|bulk|list} } \
{ eq {$sender_address} {} } \
{ match {$h_To:} {(?i)^uop-} } \
} {false} {true} }
transport = jhtrans
driver = smartuser
new_address = nobody@MASTER_MAILHUB
no_rewrite
headers_remove = X-UoP-Rewrite:X-UoP-redicopy
Needless to say don't worry about some of the stuff there! PLYMOUTH is
'plymouth.ac.uk' and MAILHUB_TYPE is 'master'.
Regards,
John.
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