Re: [BUG?] .forward vs Mailbox

Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:23:04 -0500 (EST)

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PLEASE DO NOT SEND THE SAME MAIL TO ME AND THE LIST.

This is a know problem. I may solve it some time this year.

        Wietse

Patrik Rak:
> 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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