Re: Exim4 redirect question

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 27 Dec 2009, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > I receive emails from a-user@msn.com. I would like to redirect these
> > > (and only these) to a-differentuser@gmail.com.
> > >
> > > Is this possible with exim4? From reading the docs I think it should be
> > > possible to do so using redirect but I cannot find an example of a
> > > suitable script. Can anyone provide such an example and indicate where
> > > it should go?
> > This is possible with filters. See
> > http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/filter.html for the syntax.
> >
> > Your ~/.forward file can be an exim filter. I don't know if this is
> > configured by default in Debian's exim, but it's just a simple setting
> > in the config file:
> > http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/index.html#toc0207
> >
> > It's also possible to use a system filter, but that would affect all users.
>
>
> I'd already found those. There's a lot of information but I couldn't see
> an example of the (probably very simple) kind of script I would need to
> put in ~/.forward.
>
> Anthony

Somthing like the following in the .forward file of the account which 
receives that e-mail

# Exim Filter
if error_message then finish endif
if $h_to: contains "a-user@msn.com" then
   deliver a-differentuser@gmail.com
   finish
endif


I actually do something like this but also deliver it to the original 
account.  In which case change the clause to

if $h_to: contains "a-user@msn.com" then
   unseen deliver a-differentuser@gmail.com
   save "$home/Maildir/.MailtoAuser/"
   finish
endif


Also if you want to apply other rules - don't include the finish.





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