Phil you are of course correct, I had realised that I had not told exim
to look for that file ..... Ooops
Sorry.
Ron
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 17:01, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Peter Bowyer wrote:
>
> > Ron McKeating wrote:
> > > The link "Exim's interfaces to mail filtering" in the only docs in
> > > section 3.3 user filters gives an error. Is this now not available?
> > >
> > > I am trying to filter off email from a particular user and it just
> > > does not work. I have file called .username in the users home dir. It
> ^^^^^^^^^
> ^^^^^^^^^
> Does you Exim configuration look for that file? The normal default is to
> use .forward.
>
> > > contains the following filter
> > >
> > > # Exim filter
> > >
> > > if $sender_address matches "madeupuser@???"
> > > then
> > > save "$home/Maildir/.Allumni/"
> > > seen finish
> > > endif
> > >
> > > but when I get mail from madeupuser it does not save it in that
> > > folder. The folder does exist, and I can drag and drop email into it
> > > with a client (evolution) so the permissions should be ok. Any
> > > thoughts appreciated. Exim 4.3 by the way.
> >
> > Not sure if $sender_address is available in a user filter - we use $h_from:
> > for exactly this task which does the job.
>
> $sender_address should be available. Using $h_from: can be tricky,
> because it can contain "comments" as well as one or more addresses. Yes,
> it is perfectly legal to have multiple addresses in a From: header line.
>
> Try running debugging tests for that user. You should be able to run a
> routing test with -bt, using -f to set the sender address. Does it find
> and execute the filter? Have you used -bf to test the filter? Again, you
> can use -f to set a sender address.
>
>
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