On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Alain Williams wrote:
> The documentation (filter.txt) says that the syntax is:
> mail [to <address-list>]
> but <address-list> is not defined.
Good point. Noted for next documentation update. Thanks.
> 2)
> I use .forward files to automatically process mail that arrives from
> trading partners (boring, but important, things like sales figures).
> If something goes wrong with the script the error text is sent back
> to the sender -- I would like it sent to me so that I can fix the
> problem.
You can set log_fail_output true and return_output false on the
transport, but that doesn't do exactly what you want.
There is also the return_path option for transports (perhaps it should
be called errors_to?). This should work for local transports, though I
have not tested it.
> 'deliver' has a 'errors_to' that allows this to be sent somewhere else, this is not possible
> iwth 'pipe'. I don't want this put in the system-wide exim configure file, I want it to be
> configurable by user. May I suggest the following syntax:
>
> pipe --errors_to prod_errors@localhost '/usr/local/bin/ProcessProdMail'
That is also a possiblity, though I do not like the "--" in your
suggested syntax because it is different to all other filter syntax.
Noted for the Wish List.
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