Re: .forward files?

Jim Seymour (jseymourjimsun.LinxNet.com)
Sat, 13 Nov 1999 21:44:02 -0500 (EST)

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In message <Pine.BSO.4.10.9911131702400.1773-100000NOC.maKintosh.com>,
dated Sat, 13 Nov 1999 17:10:21 -0600 (CST),
"John K." <johnNOC.maKintosh.com> wrote regarding the subject ".forward files?":
>
[snip]
>
> After changing the recipient_delimiter to "-", I ran the following
> commands:
>
> {john}[NOC:~]$ echo 9134087243.6446432pagenet.net > .forward-pager
> {john}[NOC:~]$ cat .forward-pager
> 9134087243.6446432pagenet.net
> {john}[NOC:~]$
>
> Now, when I send email to "john-pagermaKintosh.com", it gets sent to
> "mypagers-pageremailaddress.com". How do I prevent the -pager from being
> appended.

John, one of us is confused. Maybe both of us. Consider:

    1. Your normal email address is (I assume) "johnmaKintosh.com"
    2. You've created a forward file for the address extension
       "john-pager" in your home directory.
    3. The content of that forward file is "9134087243.6446432pagenet.net"
    4. But email to "john-pagermaKintosh.com" is going to
       "mypagers-pageremailaddress.com"

???

How can this be? Something else is going on here. Did you read my
previous response carefully and in its entirety? And check all
possible conditions/permutations related to the items I suggested
therein?

When I do a similar thing (putting a test user here on my system in
place of where you put the pager address), email sent to jseymour+ext
gets sent to that test user--just as I would have expected. The
"inside address" still says "jseymour+extjimsun.LinxNet.com", but it
does go where the ".forward+ext" (not the real name, btw) says it's to
go.

I think you must re-check your postfix configuration, including
anything you might have in any canonical and alias files. Or as Wietse
stated much more succinctly: "...you need to explain how
john-pagermaKintosh.com is aliased/forwarded to is aliased/forwarded to mypagersemailaddress.com."

Regards,
Jim

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