Yes after posting i realised I should be using $sender_address_local_part.
the reason I cannot use a different address to send mail out from the server
is that its an application thing that I have no control over. A different
department.
They send mails out to the internet as info@domain
Any bounce messages generated from this mail needs to be captured and mailed
to a certain person.
The messages which are delivered successfully may reply in which case I have
aliases for info@domain to forward to some real address somewhere.
I know replies go to header address and not envelopes but software such as
outlook sends its from address you set in the options as the envelope
address I think anyway ( please correct if wrong ).
So Is there an easier way to capture actually bounce messages as opposed to
just catching mail sent to or from certain addresses.
I have tried below now, but still no joy.
if $sender_address_local_part contains "<>"
then
deliver xxxx@???
endif
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Hazel [
mailto:ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: 16 July 2002 14:19
To: David Markham
Cc: Exim User (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [Exim] system filter to catch bounce messages
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, David Markham wrote:
> I want to catch bounces messages and deliver them to a certain address.
> Reason for this is I have a server sending mail out from a certain address
> and if any recipients cause a bounce I need it to be sent to a different
> mail address than the original from address.
Why not get the server to send out the messages with an appropriate
envelope sender (return path) in the first place?
> This is because if the original
> mails are delivered correctly they may be replied to and yet a different
> alias is then used to direct the mail elsewhere.
Replies go to addresses in the headers, not the envelope. So you can
have them different.
> Anyway I though of doing this in the system_filter file I have in
/usr/exim
> with the following syntax.
>
> Ignore the #
>
> #if $local_part matches <>
> #then
> # deliver address@???
> #endif
That won't work at all. With respect, you seem to be very confused about
the way bounce messages and system filters work.
1. In a system filter $local_part is never set (because a message may
have many recipients).
2. When $local_part is set (e.g. in routers) it is never empty - after
all, the message has to be addressed to some recipient!
3. A bounce message has an empty SENDER address.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
