Author: Marc Perkel Date: To: Phil Pennock CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] fail command only available in system filter?
Thanks --- that will probably work!
Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2001-12-12 at 16:20 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> > I want to use "fail" in something other than a system filter.
> >
> > Here's what I want to do. There are spam sites that I can determine with
> > 100% accuracy that some messages are definitely spam. What I want to do
> > is to fail these messages as if the recipient doesn't exist - in the
> > hopes that the bounced message will cause people to be removed from spam
> > lists.
> >
> > I can bounce them at the system filter level - but I want information in
> > the envelope-to: headers that don't exists at system filtering time. So
> > i'm using a user filter to catch this spam - but it won't let me fail
> > the message.
> >
> > I don't know if there is a work around but I'd like to have a command
> > that allows me to have the fail command in user filters.
>
> In my previous reply to you, I noted:
> > As stated, you can use a director, with a filter, instead. An exact
> > recipe for this is in "47.3 Per-address filtering".
>
> Did you use all of the example director? Including the
> "allow_system_actions" option? Which is explained in the last paragraph
> of 47.3?
>
> If you did, could you please post the director which you're using and
> some debug infommation so that we can attempt to replicate it?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Hal, open the file
> Hal, open the damn file, Hal
> open the, please Hal
>
> --
>
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