[BUG?] .forward vs Mailbox

Patrik Rak (patrikein.cz)
Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:10:50 +0100 (CET)

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Hi!

Assume I have /etc/aliases like this:

fork: address1,indirect

indirect: address2

address1: patrik
address2: patrik

And that there is valid ~patrik/.forward - content doesn't really matter,
but let's say it's but let's say it's patriksome.other.host.

If I send mail to fork, If I send mail to fork, patriksome.other.host gets one copy, but there is
also second copy which ends in ~patrik/Maildir/ (assuming we use Maildir/).

I don't think this is the expected behavior - once I have a .forward
set to forward mail to another host, I don't expect anything coming into
my mailbox, regardless how complicated aliases the system uses.

I checked the source code and found out that the problem is caused by the
been_here() dupe checking, as I expected. The original intention was too
protect the .forward files which contain self referencing aliases, but it
also causes the unfortunate behavior described above.

Any comments, anybody?

Patrik

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