Re: [exim] .forward being ignored

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Author: Ian Eiloart
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To: Yan Seiner
CC: exim-users@exim.org, Jeremy Harris
Subject: Re: [exim] .forward being ignored

> On 5 Oct 2015, at 12:30, Yan Seiner <yan@???> wrote:
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> On 10/5/2015 6:40 AM, Jeremy Harris wrote:
>> On 05/10/15 11:31, Yan Seiner wrote:
>>> I am running Exim 4.82. It works, except that my .forward file is being
>>> ignored. It tests fine, and when I feed it manually it works.
>> [...]
>>> But exim ignores it.
>> Show a debug run of a test mail, with it being ignored.
>
> I ran it with -d-all+filter which should just debug the filters, right? (Sorry, I'm not that familiar with exim; it "just works" so I don't get to work with it much.


Yes, but it may not be the filters that are at fault. It looks like your router isn’t being inspected. If an earlier router handles the message, then your filter won’t be run.

Pipe a known message into Exim, and use -d+all

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