On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Alan Pinder <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > First-time poster to this list, please be gentle :) > > Currently we have 3 main routers: alias (for forwarders), mailbox and > catch_all (for all other ones - this performs different actions > depending on the domain configuration). > > We recently had some customers asking us whether they could have the > same e-mail address for both mailboxes and forwarders - so the message > gets delivered to a mailbox as well as being forwarded to seperate > destinations. Looking through the Exim documentation, I noticed the > `unseen` directive - and added this to tbe bottom of the alias router. > > The worked well in that messages were delivered to both the mailbox and > the forwarders, however this has the unfortunate side-effect of also > running the catch-all router for the e-mail (causing a bounce message to > be sent back in certain cases!). > > I temporarily resolved this by copying the alias router and placing this > just above the catch-all router: > > alias_blackhole_router: > driver = redirect > condition = <condition> > data = :blackhole: > > Our router system now goes: alias -> mailbox -> alias_blackhole -> catchall > > This technique seems like a such a `hack` however - running the same > router twice, just to blackhole a message? > > Can anybody in the Exim community recommend a better way of doing this? > For example, is there a way to retrieve a flag saying whether delivery > has actually been attempted for this mail (even from an `unseen` router). > > Kind regards, > > Alan Pinder > > > -- > ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ >
You can use "address_data" http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch15.html -- Brent Jones [email protected] -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
