Re: extracting addresses from forward files

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Author: Michelle Dick
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: extracting addresses from forward files
John wrote:
> On Mar 31, Michelle Dick <artemis@???> wrote:
>
> > I thought the skip_syntax_errors should have handled this case.
>
> Nope. That only applies to the alias file scanning.


Oh. I was going by this:

21.2 Errors in forward files

If skip_syntax_errors is set, a malformed address that causes a
parsing error is skipped, and an entry is written in the main
log. This may be useful for mailing lists that are automatically
managed, but note the inherent danger. The option should never be set
for users' .forward files. Otherwise, if any error is detected while
generating the list of new addresses, the message is frozen, except
for the special case of inability to open an included file when
no_freeze_missing_include is set. In this case, delivery is simply
deferred.

Am I misunderstanding what this means?

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Michelle Dick             artemis@???              East Palo Alto, CA