David S. Madole wrote:
>>From: "Nigel Wade" <nmw@???>
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>>I am trying to tidy up a minor annoyance I have in my Exim setup. But so
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> far
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>>I've not been able to find any solution to the problem. I currently do
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> group
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>>expansion in aliases using an LDAP lookup in a redirect router. The lookup
>>is done using the data option, and returns a list of mail address which
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> are
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>>then redirected.
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>>Currently, if the sender is a member of the group, they receive a copy of
>>the message they sent. I'd like to be able to change this, and remove the
>>sender from the expanded list. Is there any way to do this within the
>>redirect router?
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> I don't think there's an easy way to remove the sender from the list, but
> you could suppress the delivery.
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> See the message below I sent a few days ago on the list on the same topic.
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> Simon did send me a reply that this approach worked for him.
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> David
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>>From: "David S. Madole" <david@???>
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>>>From: "Simon Fraser" <simonfr@???>
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>>>As far as the documentation and posts here indicate, there's no
>>>configuration option for turning off 'me too' posts resulting from
>>>alias expansions.
>>>
>>>I've attempted to fake this ability using the data line I've included
>>>below, but it seems a nasty way of doing it. It would be a lot
>>>simpler if I could guarantee that the expanded addresses were all
>>>qualified. As it is, it removes the entire sender_address if the
>>>sender's domain is not the one that unqualified usernames get given,
>>>and removes the local_part with an optional domain if it is.
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>>What if you put something like this before your other routers:
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>>absorb_me_too:
>> condition = ${if eq{$sender_address}{$local_part@$domain}{if
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> eq{$original_local_part@$original_domain}{$local_part@$domain}{false}{true}}
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>>}{false}}
>> data = :blackhole:
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>>This is totally untested, you might need to tweak the brackets, and it
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>>not do what you want at all. Just an idea.
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>>Basically, if the sender and recipient are the same address and the
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>>is not the result of an expansion, discard the message.
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>>Also, have you looked at qualify_preserve_domain?
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>>Dave
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Thanks.
I'll investigate something along these lines. I think my logic will be
different, as I need to dispose of the message if the local_part *is* the
result of an expansion (otherwise noone can ever send mail to themselves).
I've not encountered $original_local_part before.
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Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail : nmw@???
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