Re: [exim] event_action: one wish and one question

On 15/06/15 16:57, Jeremy Harris wrote:
> On 15/06/15 13:31, Jeremy Harris wrote:
>> On 15/06/15 11:46, Marcin Mirosław wrote:
>>> I wrongly configured event_action, I used too levels of brackets:
>>> event_action = ${if eq {msg:delivery}{$event_name} { {${lookup
>>> pgsql{SQL_POCZTA_WYCH}}} } }
>>>
>>> I added those line in transport. And then in main log I got:
>>> 2015-06-14 23:47:32 1Z4FfI-00048y-FX == aaaaaa@???
>>> R=dnslookup_batv T=external_smtp_batv defer (2): No such file or directory
>>>
>>> I spent a couple of minutes to find out what was the reason of this.
>>> Could it be possible to add some more information to logged information
>>> that this error comes from event_action?
>>
>> I'll have a think on that.
>
> The trouble here is that it was (probably) syntactically valid; the
> result of the expansion was not what you expected, but for this
> event it is ignored anyway - so there should not have been a
> semantic failure either.
>
> I'd like to see a debug run showing that it was actually the
> event that caused the defer.

Ah, I forgot with "ignored anyway" that other events are involved.
It was processed for a tcp:connect event, where the result does
matter; anything but blank resulting in the connection not being
made (the event is raised before the connection is made, to give
a fine-control capability).
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Cheers,
Jeremy