On Sunday of August 3 2008, Tony Finch wrote:
> > "[exim] why shadow_transport cannot be used with smtp (non local)" post?
>
> Sorry, I don't know anything about that feature other than what's in the
> documentation.
>
> My guess is that whoever needed the feature only needed it for local
> deliveries, and because there is different code to handle the logistics of
> local and remote delivery and the remote delivery code is more complicated
> (parallel not serial), the feature was only added for local delivery.
As you probably noticed questions about simulating postfix's always_bcc
are sent to the list every month. Last is yesterdays "[exim] Backup
Incoming/outgoing Mail". Archiving incoming mails is pretty
easy and straightforward, like
final_delivery:
...
shadow_transport = archive_incoming
archive_incoming:
driver = appendfile
file = /mail/archive/mail-to/${domain}/${local_part}/${tod_logfile}
with this scheme recovery of lost mail is really simple. It would be really
useful to make it work for outgoing mails...
There's bug filled
http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335
where Philip commented
"Unless a lot of work is done, this would be restricted to another remote
transport."
so it seems it's just not implemented and it's won't be easy to do... bad news
regards
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