Problem with archive.rules

[Martin Hepworth]

Oliver Rooney wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I am running MailScanner on a sendmail relay and I am having some
> trouble with archiving email. I have successfully been archiving all
> emails sent throught the relay to a directory, but now I am trying to
> archive emails to mail boxes based on the domain of the
> sender/recipient. This itself is not the problem, I also need to exclude
> some emails based on the username of the sender/recipient. I have tried
> the following %rules_dir%/archive.rules setup:
>
> Fromorto:       exclude at mydomain.com    /var/mailarchive
> Fromorto:       *@external_domain.com   /var/mailarchive
> external_domain at mydomain.com
> Fromorto:       default                 /var/mailarchive
>
> And had no joy as emails match both rules. I have also tried separate
> to: and from: lines for both, also withou joy. I have also tried
> (longshot) recursive rulsets
>
> Fromorto:       *@external_domain.com   %rules_dir%/external.rules
>
> But that gets interpreted as an mbox file.
>
> Is there anyway to achieve this? Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Oliver Rooney
> Trayport Ltd
> <http://www.trayport.com>
>
Oliver

FromOrTO:<tab>*@external_domain.com<tab>/var/archive/external_domain.com

should work, extrapolating from my rules and the examples..

--
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic Ltd
tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


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