i did something else, which worked well -- i put a new router before
dns lookup that only works for localparts in address files it has
its messy. it does throw an error to the paniclog. but it works, and
only has to for 3 more days until the rest of my office is migrated to
the new exim server.
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 10:16 PM, Andreas J Mueller wrote:
> Hi Jonathan!
>
>> I just noticed something peculiar on this -- if
>> /path/to/local_parts_dir/$domain does not exist, this router will be
>> passed on.
>
> I believe that Exim will actually panic in this case.
>
> The best "workaround" I could come up with in about 10 minutes is to
> check for the existence of the file before doing the lookup. This
> raises the ugliness level of this condition to 1, but seems to work as
> expected, i.e., skip the router for any local_parts listed in one of
> the files, and process all other addresses (and domains for which no
> exception files exist) normally.
>
> local_parts = ${if exists {/path/to/local_parts_dir/$domain}\
> {! lsearch;/path/to/local_parts_dir/$domain}{*}}
>
> So much easier if entire addresses were supported in a router
> precondition. You could use @@lsearch to look up local part lists
> keyed by domain... (NB: This is already a Wishlist item.)
>
> Andy
>
>
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