On 2010-12-23 at 00:47 -0800, WJCarpenter wrote: > For the first time (I think), I'm putting some "mail" commands into an > exim filter file (personal, not system). Until now, I've always used > "deliver". Whenever I do "mail", the envelope sender is empty. This > matters because the place I'm trying to "mail" to discards them (I > reckon because it assumes they are bounce notifications). > > Have I overlooked something? I've been thumbing through the Exim book > and the filter spec for a while. I think the envelope sender address is > empty because that's what the autoreply transport does. Is there any > way around that? Or, do others handle this a different way?
filter.txt, 3.14: ----------------------------8< cut here >8------------------------------ To help prevent runaway message sequences, these commands have no effect when the incoming message is a bounce (delivery error) message, and messages sent by this means are treated as if they were reporting delivery errors. Thus, they should never themselves cause a bounce message to be returned. The basic mail-sending command is ----------------------------8< cut here >8------------------------------ You haven't overlooked anything, this is hard-coded and doesn't have an option to change it. There's another approach though. How about a Sieve script with a "redirect" and another action too? Probably "keep". -Phil -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
