Re: [exim] Injecting emails directly into a router/transport

On 2014-11-11 at 10:40 +1000, Ted Cooper wrote:
> I have a desire to inject emails which have been received via getmail
> into my Exim server so that they skip everything but a specific router.
> The router hands off processing to an "Exim filter" file which sets up
> final deliveries to the correct Maildirs.

Put that router first, add a condition on the router based on
`$received_protocol`, add `no_more` so that any mails of that protocol
won't be passed to later routers.

Specify a protocol manually, which leads to:

> The only hint I have so far is that I could structure the injected
> emails like BSMTP and call "exim -bS -oMr userfwd", but then I would
> need a program to convert a raw email into bsmtp.

You don't need to specify -bs/-bh/-bS

Running: exim -oMr foo $recipient
should work; so should: exim -oMr foo -f $sender $recipient

So while BSMTP offers the most specificity around precisely controlling
recipients, you can do the above too. Just do *not* use `-t` which
would parse the message for recipients and result in re-broadcasting to
CC'd addresses.

You might also consider looking at $received_protocol during ACL
processing, for control options to avoid any fixups which you might
otherwise be activating for local messages.

-Phil