On tisdagen den 18 december 2007, Marcin Krol wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> ..so I have those two unseen routers (below) for sending to some address a
> copy of outgoing and incoming mail, respectively.
>
> It works, but when the forward address (say, "fin@???") is located
> within the same domain that is forwarded (say, "da7.promo.pl"), it
> obviously starts a loop.
>
> Now Exim detects that:
>
> fin@??? is a duplicate address: discarded
>
> But in debug log I see there are several loops done that might be avoided
> and I don't like implicit depending on Exim for detection of potential
> infinite loop.
I'd say that it's perfectly safe and even natural to do that.
> Is there a way to explicitly detect that unseen router for an address has
> already sent a copy of this mail before and skip this router explicitly in
> "condition"?
It's possible that you can use the redirect_router option (chapter 15) to
short-circuit the routing.
By the way, you can omit {$value} in your lookups. It's the default.
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