Re: [exim] MBX Driver - on non MBX file

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Author: Marc Perkel
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] MBX Driver - on non MBX file
Any chance you can make it smart so it sees the file type and
automatically switches to match?

Philip Hazel wrote:

>On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Marc Perkel wrote:
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>>So - how smart is the MBX driver? If I'm using an append transport and the
>>file I'm appending to is not MBX but and old unix format - but I specified MBX
>>- does it do a unix append - or convert the file? Or does it crash?
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>It is undefined what it does. It certainly does not convert the file. It
>probably mangles it. If you want to handle a conversion process, take a
>look at the "file_format" option of the appendfile transport. For
>example:
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>local_delivery:
>  driver = appendfile
>  check_string = 
>  delivery_date_add
>  envelope_to_add
>  file = /var/spool/mail/$local_part
>  file_format = "*mbx*\r\n : local_delivery :\
>                 From      : local_bsd_delivery"  
>  mbx_format
>  message_prefix = 
>  message_suffix = 
>  return_path_add

>
>local_bsd_delivery:
> driver = appendfile
> delivery_date_add
> envelope_to_add
> file = /var/spool/mail/$local_part
> return_path_add
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