Re: [exim] .forward being ignored

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Author: Jasen Betts
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] .forward being ignored
On 2015-10-05, Ian Eiloart <iane@???> wrote:
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>> On 5 Oct 2015, at 13:19, Yan Seiner <yan@???> wrote:
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>> On 10/5/2015 7:53 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote:
>>> 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
>> Hers's a dump of -d+all:
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>> http://seiner.com/exim_debug.log
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>> Thanks.
>
> Hmm, well not many clues here, except that the router is completely bypassed:
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> 05:07:13 22126 --------> userforward router <--------
> 05:07:13 22126 local_part=yan domain=seiner.com
> 05:07:13 22126 userforward router skipped: verify 2 0 0
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> It looks to me like there may be two problems in your router:
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> require_files = $local_part:$home/.forward
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> Which might be intended to say require_files = $home/.forward or require_files = /home/$local_part/.forward
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> Also,
> "syntax_errors_to = real-$local_part@$domain"
>
> I know that’s directly from the docs, but I think that should NOT point to your email address: you’ll get a warning for every warning message that’s sent. Recursively, I think. And that will soon add up. The warning should probably go to postmaster, or some such address. Perhaps the "real-" was added to the docs to stop people shooting themselves in the foot by copying directly!


No, it's safe - by that path you end up at the real_local router and
then at transport which has errors-to turned off.

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