Re: [Exim] duplicate forwards

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Auteur: Philip Hazel
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Aan: evan bernstein
CC: exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] duplicate forwards
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, evan bernstein wrote:

> - however, it has problems in this condition:
>   user-base has a .foward file that consists of the line
>     "user-base, user-forward".
>   When I send mail to user-base, user-base gets the piece of mail just
>     fine, however, user-forward gets two copies of the mail, which is not
>     the desired result.


> I've tried reading throught the Exim documentation, and searching online
> (including this group) but I cannot figure out why Exim is forwarding two
> pieces of mail, or how to get it stop. Any help would be appreciated.


Use the debugging facilities. Run

exim -d -bt user-forward

and see if the debugging output shows you what is going on. You can even
run a complete delivery with debugging:

exim -d user-forward
Some message text
.

The complete path through the routers will be shown to you.

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