Re: [Exim] panic when delivering to multiple recipients from…

On Tue 10 Jun 2003 at 17:45:49, Soren Harward said:
> I've got a system wide mail-filter applied to both incoming and outgoing
> mail, which is as follows:
>
> # Exim filter
> if error_message then finish endif
> if $message_headers matches "X-Scanner.*et\.byu\.edu" then
> deliver ${recipients}
> else
> pipe "/opt/infl.new/inflex ${primary_hostname} ${recipients} ${reply_address}"
> endif
>
> It works great, except when ${recipients} has two or more addresses, and
> then exim panics with this in the log:
>
> 2003-06-10 17:26:00 19PsV6-0000Pv-QJ Error in system filter: malformed
> address "AAA@???, BBB@???" in filter file: malformed
> address: , BBB@??? may not follow AAA@???
>
> So I've worked around this by having the inflex script perform a
> separate delivery for each recipient. Is there a better way to do this,
> to have the filter handle the multiple recipients itself?

Finally found an answer to my own question (since nobody else did):

# Exim filter
if error_message then finish endif
if $message_headers matches "X-Scanner.*et\.byu\.edu" then
finish
else
pipe "/opt/infl.new/inflex ${primary_hostname} ${recipients} ${reply_address}"
endif

Works great.

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Soren Harward
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