Re: [Exim] virtual users and .forward filters

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Author: Alberto Tablado
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] virtual users and .forward filters
Silly question... is 'myuser' a local user??

El lun, 09 de 02 de 2004 a las 20:34, Alex Lomas escribió:
> Forgive me if the answer to this question is obvious, I have tried to find
> the answer!
>
> The situation is that I have a mix of "real" users on my box who have
> shell accounts and proper home directories, as well as some "virtual"
> users who just have mail accounts.
>
> I have separate localuser & virtual_user routers and transports which all
> works nicely. I also have a router setup for my real users that allows
> them to use a .forward file to do move mail around into their IMAP
> Maildirs as they like.
>
> I would like to setup a similar thing for my virtual users, primarily so
> that they can automagically filter mail marked as spam (via spamassassin)
> into spam folders in their IMAP/Maildir store. I created two routers to
> handle both in this order:
>
> userforward:
> driver = redirect
> allow_filter
> check_ancestor
> check_local_user
> directory_transport = address_directory
> no_expn
> file = $home/.forward
> no_verify
>
> virtual_userforward:
> driver = redirect
> allow_filter
> check_ancestor
> no_check_local_user
> user = courier
> group = mail
> directory_transport = address_directory
> no_expn
> file = /home/virtual/$domain/$local_part/.forward
> no_verify
>
>
> However, when they are both in, only the virtual_userforward router works
> (even though it's second in the list!), and I get errors for the
> userforward router (i.e. when a real user receives mail) similar to:
>
> 2004-02-09 19:07:21 1AqGkR-0008Ml-7R == alex@???
> R=virtual_userforward defer (-1): failed to stat
> /home/virtual/mydomain.com/myuser/. (No such file or directory)
>
> It seems to me that it's trying to deliver real users via the virtual
> users transports...
>
> Sorry it's gone on a bit, but does anyone have any ideas? Perhaps it would
> be better to define a system wide filter to move spam messages to spam
> folders, but I would ideally like the capabilioty for run virtual user
> .forward files as well.
>
> Many, many thanks in advance!
>
> --Alex
>
>
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