Problem with archive.rules

[Julian Field]

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Martin Hepworth wrote:

> 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..
>
Just a minor point, they don't have to be <tab> characters, any
whitespace will do. The only times tab characters are required are in
filename.rules.conf and filetype.rules.conf.

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