Fwd: [Exim] "catch all" .forward?

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Autor: Vincent Danen
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To: exim-users
Betreff: Fwd: [Exim] "catch all" .forward?
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I should really pay attention to where I send the messages... didn't
mean to send it to myself, but to the list.

> [...]
>> I'm assuming by this then that because I'm sending to the * to the
>> user
>> vdanen, that I will need to rewrite an incoming address of the form
>> "list@???" automagically to "vdanen-list@???"
>> prior to doing a second delivery (ie. first router it hits is virtual,
>> the second is userforward). I don't think this will be a problem
>> because I think this is what qmail must do internally if I judge by
>> the
>> headers of my messages.
>
> This one is for the archives, in case others need to do this as well.
> I just wrote the following in my rewrite config:
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> *@* ${lookup{$2}lsearch{/etc/exim/virtuser}{$value-}}$1@$2 T
>
> And /etc/exim/virtuser looks like:
>
> vtest.linsec.vx: vdanen
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> So any message, ie. list@??? is rewritten as
> vdanen-list@??? and sent to the userforward appropriately;
> ~vdanen/.forward-list is referenced for the list@ email address. As
> well, sending a message to, say list@??? is delivered to
> ~list/; no rewriting is done.
>
> I have the feeling that a HOWTO may be in order once this is done. =)
>
> I'm sure there are better ways to optimize this (ie. using cdb instead
> of flat files) but for the time being, flat files and lsearch make it
> easier to change.


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