Re: .forward file format for exim

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:46:42PM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
> #debian lists
> if $h_From: contains "debian-user" or
>    $h_To: contains "Debian-user"
>    then
>            save mail/debian
> endif
> 	   
> theoretically, this should tell exim to sort incoming
> mail into the files specified as per the exim documentation
> at www.exim.org
> 
> since it doesn't work, i must be doing something wrong.

Take a look at the From: and To: headers on list messages.  None of
them are From: the list address and many replies are To: the original
message's sender and Cc: the list.

Try filtering on the X-Mailing_List: header instead.

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