From: Matthias Andree (madt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 11:09:03 CDT

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wietseporcupine.org (Wietse Venema) writes:

> Inconsistencies between SMTP server and delivery agents are currently
> unavoidable. For example, Postfix virtual(5) or aliases(5) will
> rewrite an address into a non-existent one, and SMTPD will accept
> the address while the delivery agent bounces it as user unknown.

I presume that is because the smtpd doesn't actually try map expansion
for various reasons. My issue is simpler - a sanity check to work around
existing flaws in getpwnam() interfaces. Using unix: rather than nis:,
as Victor has suggested, would lead to even earlier failure.

I'm wondering if local(8) would accept -o soft_bounce=yes in master.cf
as a stopgap measure.

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