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List:       exim-users
Subject:    [Exim] Vaction set-up and .forward file
From:       "Dermot Paikkos" <dermot () sciencephoto ! com>
Date:       2001-01-29 18:47:23
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Hi,
I am new to exim and am trying to set-up a vacation facility for our
installation (v3.16). I have been trying to do this using .forward files
and filtering rules in a test mail account home directory. I have 
created the following .forward file which was copied practically 
verbatim from the User's mail filtering doc.

# Exim filter

  if personal then
    seen mail             		#  Seen has been added here
          to $reply_address
          subject "Re: $h_subject:"
          file $home/.vacation.msg
          once_repeat 10d
  endif
  if error_message then finish endif

I also tried:

# exim filter
if personal then vacation endif 

For each of these I get: 
>exim -bf new-filter < mail.txt

  Sender    = user@somedomain.com
  Recipient = root@somedomain.co.uk
  Testing Exim filter file new-filter

  Filter processing ended:
  Filtering did not set up a significant delivery.
  Normal delivery will occur.

I added "seen" before the mail command in the 1st filter rule and 
also tried placing it at the before the endif. This hasn't effected any 
change. I have looked at the other messages regarding the vacation 
in the archive and people seem to have set up transports 
specifically for vacation which have the "unseen" option. I am 
guessing a little but I think I need to update my exim.conf to make 
this work, would that seem correct?  Below is an extract from the 
exim.conf transport and directors sections: Can anyone offer any 
advice here?
Thanx in advance.

local_delivery
  driver = appendfile
  file = /var/mail/${local_part}
  delivery_date_add
  envelope_to_add
  return_path_add
  group = mail
  mode = 0660

address_pipe:
  driver = pipe
  return_output

address_file:
  driver = appendfile
  delivery_date_add
  envelope_to_add
  return_path_add

address_reply:
  driver = autoreply

Directors:
userforward:
  driver = forwardfile
  file = .forward
  no_verify
  no_expn
  check_ancestor
  filter
  file_transport = address_file
  pipe_transport = address_pipe
  reply_transport = address_reply

localuser:
  driver = localuser
  transport = local_delivery

~~
Dermot Paikkos * dermot@sciencephoto.com
Network Administrator @ Science Photo Library
Phone: 0207 432 1100 * Fax: 0207 286 8668

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