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On Thu, 23 May 2002, the responder wrote:
>On Wed, 22 May 2002, Sheen, Tony wrote:
>> However, being new to Exim 4.04 (I'm still evaluating it), I tried to
create
>> a router than simply bounced a message back to everyone who sent to a
>> specific domain. In case you are wondering, I do have a valid reason for
>> doing it!
>>
>> So, based on the examples in the manual, I created a router as follows:
>>
>> route_foo_net:
>> driver = redirect
>> allow_filter = true
>> user = exim
>> domains = foo.net
>> file = /etc/mail/exim/foo.filter
>> reply_transport = remote_smtp_reply
>
>A shorter router would be as follows:
>
> route_foo_net:
> driver = redirect
> domains = foo.net
> allow_fail
> data = :fail: Your message here...
I need the original message to pass, hence the way I was doing it.
>No need for a transport. But you can do it your way if you want to
>customize the message some more. Except...
>
> Which uses the following transport:
>
> remote_smtp_reply:
> driver = smtp
> port = 25
> hosts = foo.co.uk
>
>This won't work. A setting of "reply_transport" on the redirect router
>is expected to point to an "autoreply" transport to send the bounce
>message. Sending it to an smtp transport will cause something weird to
>happen. (And anyway, you wouldn't always want to send it to foo.co.uk,
>would you?)
Thanks! Works a treat now.
>> The same extra '>' character appears in the debug trace from Exim itself
>> (see below) and there is no sign of "postmaster@???" MAIL FROM
address !
>
>Indeed. Exim uses a leading '>' to indicate a "delivery" that really is
>sending a new message. This will confuse anything but an autoreply
>transport.
I understand now.
>> So what am doing wrong??? Or is it a bug ? :-(
>
>Maybe a bug in the documentation. You are not the first to make this
>mistake. I'll see if I can improve the wording sometime.
That would be nice. I suspect most of my problems are due to being
unfamiliar
with Exim (but I'm learning fast).
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Local deliveries >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>> --------> >tony.sheen@??? <--------
>> locking /var/spool/mqueue/exim/db/retry.lockfile
>> locked /var/spool/mqueue/exim/db/retry.lockfile
>
>On the other hand, you get brownie points for doing the right thing by
>running a debugging test and posting the relevant output. :-)
I'll add them to my collection! I used to work in tech support and I have
seen far too many messages that had no supporting information, irrelevant
info, wrong info or far too much information (etc)!
Thanks for a very powerful tool !!! See you on the course in June...
Tony Sheen
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