Re: Local mail being duplicated

Andrew McNamara (andrewmconnect.com.au)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 13:21:48 +1100

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>Reason to not do this by default is sendmail compatibility (for
>some version of sendmail): if an alias `foo' lists the name `foo'
>in its expansion, sendmail delivers to the user `foo' instead. In
>this case, always-forward would cause a delivery loop.

Maybe the answer is to treat failed recipients like forwards (and put
them into a new deferred queue file)?

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