Re: [exim] address rewrite not working

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Auteur: Johann Spies
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À: exim-users, Always Learning
Sujet: Re: [exim] address rewrite not working
Hallo Nigel,

>
> STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD!!!!
>
> Two definitive exim rules:-
>
>  - If you are talking about getting mail to a destination, you do
>    not want to be considering rewriting - that is trying to bring
>    a sendmail (everything done by rewrites) mindset into exim

>
> - Never do mail routing in a system filter


Please help me to understand and maybe a practical situation will make
it clear.

On our campus there several mailservers for which we relayed mail. Then
it happens that one or more of them cease to exist and the mail have to
be delivered at another place (e.g. exchange).

How would you, without rewriting the email, handle that situation. What
we did was to rewrite it:

Say the mail serves akad and addresses had the pattern:
user@???

We rewrote it to user@???.

Regards
Johann
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