From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 18:02:53 CST

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Magnus Bäck:
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> On Wednesday, March 31, 2004 at 15:58 CEST,
> Victor.Duchovnimorganstanley.com wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Magnus B?ck wrote:
> >
> > > Without configuration information and logs, we cannot help you. Aliases
> > > is the way to go, though, so if you do it right it will work.
> >
> > Sorry Magnus, I feel I can pick on you because you are very knowlegeable
> > about Postfix, and help out so many people, I can therefore praise you
> > first and then complain. :-)
> >
> > I think it would be better in some cases, when the answer to the OP's
> > question is not immediately apparent, to wait a bit before answering and
> > see whether it is more apparent to someone else. It is very generous to
> > answer questions quickly, but perhaps not too quickly :-)
>
> Yeah, you're quite right. The "show logs and config"-reply has indeed
> rooted itself in my spine.
>
> > The OP is experiencing multiple deliveries with alias expansion, this
> > is a well-known problem, solved with "owner-foo" aliases.
>
> Ah, yes. And the reason for this somewhat strange behaviour is that the
> local alias expansion is performed by local(8), and it cannot report
> back partial problematic recipients?

There is only one recipient record for all the recipients in the
expansion. They all fail or they all succeed. This is why an owner
alias helps: Postfix stores the recipients before attempting
delivery.

        Wietse

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