On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 12:00 +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Two definitive exim rules:-
>
> - Never do mail routing in a system filter
Why not ?
Exim has been designed, programmed and released to the world to do
exactly that ......
> if $h_to: contains mail@???
> then
> deliver general.mailbox@???
> finish
> endif
... please will you kindly enlighten me why it might be advantageous to
Exim admins to ignore the system filter facilities (which use a
noticeably different syntax from the rest of Exim).
Your suggestion ....
> redirect_deprecated:
> driver = redirect
> domains = akad.sun.ac.za
> data = ${quote_local_part:$local_part}@???
..... certainly is interesting. Would this forward mail for
user1@??? to new.box@??? ?
divert_mail
driver = redirect
domains = old-domain.com
local_part = user1
data = new.box@???
Happy Christmas,
Paul.
