That'll keep me busy for a while..... :-)
Thanks for your help guys, much appreciated.
Andy
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
> > > This all sounds so easy, but there is a slight flaw in the plan. The
> > > messages will need to be accessed by other software, so they will need
> > > to be stored in the maildir format.
>
> You (not you, Nigel, I mean Andrew) mean "non-BSMTP" format, that is,
> without SMTP commands, just as pure 822 messages. You can't really call
> that "maildir format".
>
> > In that case make sure that exim is writing the Return-Path: and
> > Envelope-To: headers, then write a small perl script which:-
> >
> > - connects to the SMTP or BSMTP server - ie open "|/usr/sbin/exim -bS"
> > - opens the maildir file
> > - reads the first couple of lines (ie envelope-to & return-path)
> > - writes "MAIL FROM <contents of return-path>"
> > - writes "RCPT TO <contents of envelope-to>"
>
> It's a bad day for typos (I posted > instead of | for a pipe earlier
> today). That should read
>
> - writes "MAIL FROM:<contents of return-path>"
> - writes "RCPT TO:<contents of envelope-to>"
>
> The colons are vital. Strictly there shouldn't be any space between :
> and < but most MTAs don't mind. (Note that < and > are characters that
> should actually appear in the line; they are not metacharacters
> surrounding a data description.)
>
> > - writes "DATA"
> > - shoves message data down pipe
>
> ... and then writes "."
>
> > - finishes up
> >
> > You probably want a couple of wrinkles - most of that should be in a
> > per file loop, and you want to check for lines starting with "." and
> > double them.
>
> and you should check the return code from exim. See documentation on
> BSMTP for how Exim handles errors in -bS mode.
>
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> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
>
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