From: Magnus Bäck (magnusdsek.lth.se)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 08:47:04 CST

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On Friday, April 02, 2004 at 15:45 CEST,
     Victor.Duchovnimorganstanley.com wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Magnus Bäck wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Yes, the queue file contains only the original alias LHS, so it must
> entirely succeed, or entirely fail. With an "owner-foo" alias local(8)
> submits a new queue file to cleanup(8) containing all the expanded
> recipients, so delivery can succeed or fail for each separately.

Aha. I didn't realize a new queue file was submitted. With that
information things start to make sense to me. Will cleanup(8)
run the mail through body_checks and friends again?

I guess this is a good time for me to start reading the Postfix
source code.

> The reason this behaviour is not the default is Sendmail
> compatibility, specifically self-referential aliases.

Okay.

Thanks for the explanations, Viktor and Wietse.

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Magnus Bäck
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