[rt-users] rt-mailgate and exim

[seph]

I recently installed rt2 onto a machine that was using exim as it's
MTA. While configuring the various aliases I figured there ought be a
better way. So I hacked at my exim.conf for a bit (with help from a
friend) and ended up with a machine where I can send mail to
rt-queue+action at host, and it will DTRT.

basicly I told exim that I had a local user "rt" (I don't) and that -
was a prefix and + was a suffix, and that it should send all mail for
this user to a transport. The transport just execs rt-mailgate with
the relevant command line flags.

my end setup will have my hacked exim.conf on the rt2 host, and my
domain's main mail server will have aliases like:
abuse:   rt-abuse+correspond at rt2
I find this much simpler than having big long aliases somewhere.
anyhow, I figured I'd share....


in the TRANSPORTS section of my exim.conf I've added:

# my rt hack
local_delivery_rt:
  driver = pipe
  command = "/usr/local/rt2/bin/rt-mailgate --queue ${quote:$local_part} --action ${quote:${substr_1:$local_part_suffix}}"
  return_path_add
  return_output
  prefix = ""
  suffix = ""
  user = www-data



and in the DIRECTORS section I've added:
localuser_rt:
  driver = smartuser
  suffix = +*
  prefix = *-
  new_address = ${quote:${lc:${local_part}}}@${domain}
  transport = local_delivery_rt


have fun

seph