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Postfix Archives: Re: Local mail being duplicated

Re: Local mail being duplicated

Andrew McNamara (andrewmconnect.com.au)
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:04:33 +1100

>> Maybe the answer is to treat failed recipients like forwards (and put
>> them into a new deferred queue file)?
>
>That would work only when EVERY recipient in the expansion of an
>alias/forward file is an address (as opposed to some mixture of
>addresses, commands and file destinations). Postfix cannot selectively
>defer delivery to commands/files that appear in the expansion of
>aliases/forward files, and since it cannot know ahead of time that
>EVERY recipient will be an address, it cannot assume that it can
>selectively forward bad recipients.

Okay. That makes sense. We're very much between a rock and a hard place
with alias expansions. Sigh.

The virtual file would almost do everything I want - except that it
can't cope with include files (I can live with it not doing program
aliases). Would it be reasonable to add this functionality?

>There's a length comment in local/recipient.c on this subject.

I read it, but didn't appreciate all the implications.

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Andrew McNamara (System Architect)

connect.com.au Pty Ltd
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