Re: [exim] trouble with a redirect router

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Autore: Fred Viles
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To: exim-users
Oggetto: Re: [exim] trouble with a redirect router
On 7 Oct 2004 at 15:57, Noah Meyerhans wrote about
    "[exim] trouble with a redirect rout":


|...
| The router looks like this:
| legacy_mail:
|     driver = redirect
|     domains = +legacy_domains
|     condition = ${lookup{$local_part}dbm{/etc/exim/$domain.db}}


This is a precondition, so if the lookup fails, the router is not
run.

|     local_parts = dbm;/etc/exim/$domain.db
|     local_part_suffix = +*
|     local_part_suffix_optional
|     data = ${quote:\
|                ${local_part:$local_part_data}$local_part_suffix\
|             }@${domain:$local_part_data}
|     cannot_route_message = "Unkown user $local_part in domain $domain"
|     more = false

|...
| However, if this
| router is listed first, I expect the "more = false" directive to cause
| exim to stop trying other routers and return the same 550 message.


No, not the way you have it. From the Fine Manual:

| more                            Type: boolean*                   Default: true
| 
| ...
|     If this option is set false, and the router is run, but declines to handle

                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

|     the address, no further routers are tried, routing fails, and the
|     address is bounced.
| ...
|                                                     Also, the setting of
|     "more" does not affect the behaviour if one of the precondition tests
|     fails. In that case, the address is always passed to the next router.


So you don't want to use condition= to cause the router to be skipped
if the lookup fails. I think you want to do the lookup in an ${if in
the data= line and then fail the expansion or return an empty string
if the lookup fails.

- Fred