On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2008-02-07 at 19:29 +0100, Benjamin Podszun wrote:
>> (Running as root or trusted mail account)
>>
>> exim -bf testfilter < testmail
>
> You're missing "-t" to take recipients, etc, from the mail headers of
> "testmail".
$ exim -bf testfilter -t < testmail
exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
>> 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?
>
> Only if you tell it to. Otherwise the recipients are specified on the
> command-line.
Would love to tell it to use the sample mail somehow. But since I'm
testing filter rules with a sample message, what's the message for if it
isn't used for the addresses? Headers only by default? Anything at all?
Sorry, I'm still lost here.
