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List:       exim-users
Subject:    Re: [EXIM] Returning PIPE output
From:       Philip Hazel <ph10 () cus ! cam ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1998-08-25 8:43:38
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On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Bruce Bowler wrote:

> On occasion, I get a mail message that comes to me with a well defined
> subject.  When these messages  come, I've rigged my .forward file to
> forward them on to a different user (on a different machine) where they
> get processes via a pipe.  I would like to have the output of the pipe
> sent back to me, or back to the other user on the other machine, but
> *NOT* back to the person who sent me the original message.  So
> essentially what I'm looking for is either a "return_pipe_recipient"
> option that behaves sort of like "return_pipe", or a way in a .forward
> file to mangle the sender to be me.

I think the only way to do that would be to pipe the message to a local
script that creates a new message to the other address, instead of 
normal forwarding.

Alternatively, if you are the administrator of the machine and can 
tinker with the Exim configuration, you could set up a personal 
forwardfile director with errors_to set to you. You could use a 
"condition" option to make it conditional on the subject of the message.
Indeed, you don't even have to bother with a .forward file; just use a 
smartuser with a condition test and an errors_to setting.


-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.


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