[ale] [Fwd: Duplicate messages, Exim4 & .forward]

Jason Day jasonday at worldnet.att.net
Tue Nov 11 13:55:17 EST 2003


On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:10:47PM -0500, BruceG wrote:
[snip]
> bruce at manygriffi:~$ cat .forward
> # Exim filter
> # Handle mailing lists
>  
> if $h_To: contains "fedora-list at redhat.com"
>   then save Maildir/.Fedora/
>  
> elif $h_to: contains "ale at ale.org" or
>      $h_to: contains "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts"
>   then save Maildir/.ALE/
>  
> elif $h_to: contains "squirrelmail"
>   then save Maildir/.Squirrelmail/
>  
> elif $h_to: contains "madwifi"
>   then save Maildir/.madwifi/
>  
> elif $h_to: contains "gnucash-user at gnucash.org"
>    then save Maildir/.GnuCash/
>  
> elif $h_from: contains "Cron Daemon"
>   then save Maildir/.Cron/
>    
> endif

I haven't used a .forward file in a loooong time, but I had no idea you
could use this kind of syntax.  Is this specific to exim4?

>  
> # If you didn't enable site wide Maildir
> # your users will need to have this catch all
> # entry, or it'll end up in MBox format.
> #
> save Maildir/

It looks like everything falls through to this line.  Will this line
save to your inbox?
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