Re: [Exim] "message filter" address

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Phil Chambers
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] "message filter" address
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Phil Chambers wrote:

> I am completely mystified by something which has just started. I have various
> conditions in my system filter along the lines of:
>
> if $message_body matches "<pattern matching a virus>"
> then
> deliver vircheck
> seen finish
> endif
>
> These have been diverting virus-containing messages so that I can check for
> false-positives quite successfully for some time. Last week I added a new one for
> the Badtrans virus and it is producing quite different results!


Please post the actual code in your filter.

>     2001-12-10 01:17:35 vircheck@??? <vircheck@???> D=localuser
>     defer (-10): <message filter@???> is a bad new address: missing
>     or malformed local part (expected word or "<")
>     *** Frozen


"message filter" is the pseudo "parent" of deliveries generated by a
system filter file. Somehow you seem to have got it made into an new
address by a smartuser.


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