On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Richard Gration wrote:
> $local_part: When an address is being routed, or delivered on its own, this
> variable contains the local part. When a number of addresses are being
> delivered together (for example, multiple RCPT commands in an SMTP session),
> $local_part is not set.
>
> I tried this out (with exim -bs) with 2 RCPT commands and the message got
> delivered to both envelope recipients. It was a local delivery, and the
> transport looks like this:
>
> local_delivery:
> driver = appendfile
> file = ${lookup pgsql{select home_dir from local_users where \
> local_part = '$local_part'}{$value}fail}
> delivery_date_add
> envelope_to_add
> return_path_add
>
> I'm confused, can anyone please help me out?
By default, local deliveries are done one at a time. You have to set
batch_max to get multiple deliveries in one run of a transport.
In contrast, remote deliveries are done several at a time by default if
a number of addresses route to the same hosts.
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