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Subject: Re: Bypassing .forward, how?
From: Martin Schulze (joeyfinlandia.infodrom.north.de)
Date: Mon Sep 11 2000 - 07:23:30 CDT

Wietse Venema wrote:
> Martin Schulze:
> > Wietse Venema wrote:
> > > Martin Schulze:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > In the old days when I used smail as MTA I said real-joeyhost to reach
> > > > the real mailbox /var/spool/something instead of the entire procedure
> > > > through .forward or .procmailrc. sendmail used to accept \joey, but
> > > > how do I achieve this with Postfix?
> > >
> > > Currently, that bypass does not work (you get the effect with \\user,
> > > however that is wrong).
> >
> > So what could one do - besides using procmail?
>
> Wait until I fix the problem?

I wasn't sure that you have considered this as a bug in postfix.

> > Some local uses use something like:
> >
> > .forward: real-user,my-accountmy-university.de
>
> This work fine if you just specify the username.

Umh... that won't create a loop? No, it won't, good. Could you add
some blurb to the FAQ?

Regards,

        Joey 

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