Re: [exim] once in auto_reply transport?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Richard P. Welty
CC: Exim users mailing list
Subject: Re: [exim] once in auto_reply transport?
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Richard P. Welty wrote:

> i'm trying to get the once option working in an autoreply transport,
> and i don't see what the problem is here.
>
> # not whitelisted
> not_on_whitelist_reply:
>     driver = autoreply
>     file = /etc/exim/not_on_whitelist_reply.txt
>     once = /etc/exim/not_whitelisted_senders.db
>     once_file_size = 100000

>
>
> the .db file exists, is zero length, owned by exim, permissions
> 777, and exim isn't putting anything into it. i'm not seeing
> anything in the log files about the file, i can certainly
> see the transport executing properly (except for the file
> update.)
>
> exim-4.66, fedora core 5 linux, with whatever db library the
> install defaults to.


It isn't a db library that adds another extension is it?

Oh, you've set once_file_size. That stops it using a db library at all.
Try removing that. (See the manual.) And try removing the file and
letting Exim create it for you.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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