On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, John Henders wrote:
> On Mar 31, Michelle Dick <artemis@???> wrote:
>
> > > 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?
>
> Philip would know better, but I'm guessing that the reason it's not
> working is that the entry point is different, because of the :include:
> function. This may mean that the parse_extract_addresses isn't
> getting passed the skip_syntax_errors flag the way it would if entry was
> from the forwardfile driver.
No, it should all be working as Michelle expects. I'll investigate that
one too.
Philip
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