On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 17:05 +0100, John Burnham wrote:
> > Apologies for the odd question. I'm looking at setting up a 
> > really quick
> > and simple Exim to use as a honeypot and wonder if it's possible to do
> > this:
> > 
> > Have it accept everything that is thrown at it but write 
> > every mail to a
> > local file only - not actually deliver it. However, I would like to
> > preserve the intended original recipient.
> > 
> > I'm guessing this would be a really simple runtime config 
> > that would use
> > a redirect router, but my fear is I don't want to mis-configure it and
> > for it to start 'poluting'.
> 
> Well, if you remove all routers that can do a remote delivery and run a few 
> exim -d -bt email.address type tests to satisfy yourself that it does what 
> you've told it to do then you should be OK. Use of an accept or redirect 
> router would probably be the way I'd think of doing this and just write the 
> emails to one or more files.
> 
> In terms of preserving the original recipients, there are many ways you could 
> achieve this - something in the data acl that does a warn and adds a header 
> containing $recipients maybe ?
> 
>  J
> 
Thanks John. A job for tomorrow morning.



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