Re: [exim] Exim Consolidating users

On 25 Feb 2010, at 09:49, David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 08:51 +0000, Jonathan Gilpin wrote:
>> On 25 Feb 2010, at 08:32, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 14:54 -0800, Phil Pennock wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Okay, so you've rewritten the recipient in another Router which you
>>>> haven't shown us. Two of the SMTP RCPT recipients have been rewritten
>>>> to the same SMTP recipient, and Exim is not delivering twice to the
>>>> *same* recipient, as routed.
>>>>
>>>> This is a very different problem to the one described.
>>>
>>> Um, that's exactly what I read in his first message.
>>>
>>> I don't know of a way to make Exim deliver multiple copies of the same
>>> message to the "same" recipient.
>>
>> It's not the same recipient, they would be different recipients as they would be
>> different email addresses in the RCPT To.
>
>> I'm actually not using a redirect as my routers are using 'accep't.
>
> Apart from the one that isn't:
>
> mysql_aliases:
> driver = redirect
> file_transport = address_file
> pipe_transport = address_pipe
> data = ${lookup mysql{SELECT destination ...}}
>
> Presumably that's the one which redirects all unknown addresses to
> 'postmaster'? I definitely see 'postmaster' as the destination address
> in the logs you've posted:

Ah ha yes... thats right..
>
> 2010-02-24 18:15:02 1NkLlE-000AJ2-Pu => postmaster <gg@???>
> R=virtual_local_mailbox T=virtual_local_md_delivery
>
>>> One possible solution might be to change the way you do the catch-all.
>>> Rather than using an alias and redirecting all the unknown recipient
>>> addresses to postmaster@, try a router which matches all the unknown
>>> addresses and just _happens_ to deliver them all into the same maildir?
>>
>> Do you have any ideas of how to implement the above?
>
> Perhaps instead of redirecting to 'postmaster' you could redirect to an
> address such as 'catchall-$original_local_part', and then ensure that
> such recipients are all delivered into the same mailbox by the routers?

any idea how to write this in exim language? Basically the theory sounds good!

Jonathan