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Subject: Re: unknown mail transport (more info)
From: Admin Mailing Lists (mlistintergrafix.net)
Date: Tue Apr 11 2000 - 13:46:34 CDT

i have no idea what mail reader the client uses. i'm surprised they
haven't called being that no mail for this username is being delivered.
I blame customer service for even taking this as a username.
If I was you i wouldn't do anything. if you changed it to _ then what
happens if a user is called t_lut. it's not very likely, but it's
possible.
I wonder if periods are even allowed, per RFC standards.
seems if you're using hashed spools, if you have a level of 2 or more, one
of the directories would have to be called '.' which we both know can't
happen..so i would think it goes against some RFC.

-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
adminintergrafix.net Intergrafix Internet Services

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On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Wietse Venema wrote:

> Admin Mailing Lists:
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Wietse Venema wrote:
> >
> > > > Apr 11 12:10:28 athena postfix/local[2406]: panic: dir_forest: invalid
> > > > pathname: t.lut
> > >
> > > 1 - What is the reason for not including this essential information
> > > in the previous emails on this problem?
> > >
> >
> > i dont remember seeing it there in the log. it's not generated by local
> > -v?
>
> panic/fatal/warning messages are always logged. Perhaps you have
> a syslog configuration that has upper both and lower thresholds.
>
> > > 2 - What algorithm does the mail reading software user for usernames
> > > with a . in them?
> >
> > not sure i follow this question. if i send a message from pine to
> > t.lutintergrafix.net the previous given errors show up in the log and no
> > mail for that username gets delivered.
>
> How would the mail reading program find the mailbox?
>
> I could change postfix so that it uses a _ when the name contains
> a . but I wonder what filename the mail reading program would use.
>
> Wietse
>
>
> Wietse
>
>