[H-GEN] Forward files in exim

[David Jericho]

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On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 20:49, Michael Anthon wrote:
> > I've got exim with uw-imapd running. How do I set up forwarding so that all my
> > mail goes to the correct folders? Thanks,
> 
> Sounds like a job for PROCMAIL !

Repeat after me. Procmail and Exim are the antichrist when combined.

Unless you do some funky error level handling in the Exim configuration
file, once Exim has handed off the mail to procmail down a pipe, it no
longer cares what procmail does with it. If procmail chokes for some
reason, you've lost mail.

You want to use Exim filters. Not only are they closer to plain english
(this is one of your reasons for using Exim right?), but Exim does some
rather nice handling and has great error recovery mechanisms.

http://www.exim.org/docs.html, under the link "The Exim Filter
Specification - Version <whatever your major version is>". 

-- 
David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd

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