Author: Dave C. Date: To: Philip Hazel CC: Gregory Heinrich, exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Fail command in filters: no mail sent back to the sender
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Gregory Heinrich wrote:
>
> > I think I get it! In fact, the message that is supposed to be sent back to
> > the heinrich@??? with an error message is also filtered!
>
> Of course. All messages are filtered.
>
> > To fix it, I have added a test for first_delivery at the beginning of my
> > filter so that it now looks like :
>
> Wrong fix. First delivery applies to each message separately. The error
> message isn't a "second delivery", but a new message.
>
> > I do not know the exim filter language very well. How can I fix it?
>
> You must test for the error message, and not filter it. Something like
>
> if error message and $sender_address is mailer-daemon@???
> then finish endif
>
Er, wont those checks me mutually exclusive? Eg, a message is only an
error if $sender_address is null?
