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Subject: Re: Bug/feature in alias handling
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 03:33:11 CST

On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:09:58AM +1100, Tim Bell wrote:

> Recently we discovered that some mail to one of these lists had been
> sent to the unknown users "ro" and "ot". It turns out that the line in
> the included file had grown quite large; the first "o" of "root" was
> the 2048th character, and the second "o" was the 2049th. I'm assuming
> the line was split because of maximum line buffer considerations.

A CR every now and then would solve the problem.

> I have fixed the silly long lines in our lists which led to the problem,
> but I think the addition of a suitable warning in postfix would also
> be useful.

Postalias doesn't give an error?
not even with -v ? 

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