Hi there.
I'm currently trying to set up sieve filtering for me and my users,
therefor I'm playing around with sieve scripts/examples and need to test
them, obviously.
Unfortunately exim -bf myfilterfile < sometestmessage doesn't work as I
would expect it to:
(Running as root or trusted mail account)
exim -bf testfilter < testmail
Return-path copied from sender
Sender = root@myHostFQDN
Recipient = root@myHostFQDN
Testing Sieve filter file "testfilter"
No implicit keep
With debug infos:
exim -d-all+filter -bf testfilter < testmail
Exim version 4.68 uid=0 gid=0 pid=15518 D=200
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.5.20: (September 20, 2006)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl TCPwrappers OpenSSL
Content_Scanning Old_Demime Experimental_SPF
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch
mysql passwd sqlite
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
configuration file is /etc/exim/exim.conf
log selectors = 000055ff 006bb869
trusted user
admin user
Return-path copied from sender
Sender = root@myFQDN
Recipient = root@myFQDN
Testing Sieve filter file "testfilter"
fileinto `INBOX.ben'
No implicit keep
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Exim pid=15518 terminating with rc=0 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Okay, two things make me nervous here:
1) Why is the recipient in this test the current user? I know that I can
override/set that with -bfd/-bfl but I expected that exim takes these
values from the testmail - to test the rules?
2) Even worse, because I don't understand the use of this testing command
at all, currently: Why is the sender address not taken from the testmail?
The mail is a real sample, taken from my maildir inbox. I guess there's
not much wrong with it since exim does use it somehow ("Return-path copied
from sender").
I'm pretty sure I'm doing something very stupid here, but right now I'm
clueless. Can anyone lend me a hand or point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Ben
