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singletoned at gmail

Sep 29, 2009, 1:23 PM

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How to create a filter to catch all bounce messages

As a follow-up to my previous question. How does one go about
creating a filter that would match all bounce messages?

I have tried:

if error_message then
seen save /nm_var/bounces/
endif

But that doesn't catch the bounces that exim sends. For example if I
do:

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exim singletoned [at] gmail
To: asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfewrqertrtyrthsfgdfgadfqeadvxzvz [at] gmail
Subject: A bounce test

Another bounce
-----

Then that gets bounced to my gmail address.

The filter that I tried that caught all my mail was:

if $header_return-path: is "" then
seen save /Users/singletoned/temp/exim/var/
endif

As before, any clues or ideas will be gratefully received.

Thanks

Ed

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thomy at vincentz

Sep 30, 2009, 3:44 AM

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Re: How to create a filter to catch all bounce messages [In reply to]

> As a follow-up to my previous question. How does one go about
> creating a filter that would match all bounce messages?
>
> I have tried:
>
> if error_message then
> seen save /nm_var/bounces/
> endif
why not look for x-failed-recipients in the header?

greets,
thomy

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singletoned at gmail

Sep 30, 2009, 9:12 AM

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Re: How to create a filter to catch all bounce messages [In reply to]

On 30 Sep 2009, at 11:44, thomy [at] vincentz wrote:

>
>> As a follow-up to my previous question. How does one go about
>> creating a filter that would match all bounce messages?
>>
>> I have tried:
>>
>> if error_message then
>> seen save /nm_var/bounces/
>> endif
> why not look for x-failed-recipients in the header?

That's a brilliant idea, thank you. I'll try that out post haste.

For the moment, checking that the return path contains my server name
appears to work, but obviously isn't going to be correct in all
cases. Yours is a much better solution.

Thanks

Ed

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