Re: Exim wierdness

[Frederick Page <fpage@thebetteros.oche.de>]

Hi Jim Foltz,

you wrote on Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 09:48:00PM -0500:

>I am experiencing some wierdness with exim. I run fetchmail and download
>say 30 messages, but only some of them show up in my mail box.

(some filters snipped)

You did not specify, what to do with the messages, that *don't* fit 
into your filter-patterns. So I suggest the following (of course
you'll need to adjust those):

#  deliver personal mail to local account fpage
if
   personal
then
   deliver fpage
   finish
endif

#  this takes care of emails from cron, uucp, news, etc.
if
   $sender_address matches "(uucp|news|root)@thebetteros"
then
   save $home/mail/statistics
   finish
endif

#  *LAST* filter pattern in~/.forward as safety-net
#  if filter reaches this point and mail is still undelivered:
#  save to abnormal and email root (it's alias) about this
if
   not delivered
then
   mail text "Abnormal Delivery! $header_subject"
   save $home/mail/abnormal
endif

Tell us, if it works.

Kind regards

Frederick


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