David Mathog wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Mail to "joeuser@???", where target.edu runs exim, in some
> cases was originally sent to an alias on another mail system which
> forwarded them. Let's say that forwarding address was
> "AKA@???". These appear on the exim machine with headers
> like:
>
> Envelope-to: joeuser@???
> From: sender@???
> To: AKA@???
> Subject: test
>
> and are delivered to joeuser.
>
> What exim configuration rules would one use to convert the subject
> line on ONLY the messages originally sent to "AKA@???" from:
>
> Subject: test
>
> to
>
> Subject: [AKA] test
>
> ?
>
> All other messages should retain their original Subject line. The
> purpose for doing this is to give a visual indication of the type of
> message received - otherwise in most mail clients the AKA origin of
> the message isn't exposed until the message is opened and more
> headers are shown to the user.
>
> These rewrites would apply only to this one user. Can this be done
> in a .forward file or must it be entered in the general configuration
> with some sort of conditional on the Envelope-to and To: headers?
>
> Thank you,
>
> David Mathog
> mathog@???
> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
Where it's only for one user, I'd normally look first to see if it could
be done using a client side setting. This looks like something that
could probably be done for example using Outlook rules to place the
message into a separate folder (rather than necessarily change the
subject header).
Regards
Richard
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