On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 jhenders@??? wrote:
> As trying to use one with the queries line didn't work for me.
>
> queries =\
> [alias=${local_part}@${domain}],mail_aliases.org_dir\:expansion:\
> [alias=@${domain}],mail_aliases.org_dir\:expansion
You have to double colons in colon-separated lists, not escape them. You
would also need to quote that:
queries ="\
[alias=${local_part}@${domain}],mail_aliases.org_dir::expansion: \
[alias=@${domain}],mail_aliases.org_dir:expansion"
> Appearanly sendmail knew how to parse this and bounce the message, but
> exim just treats it as a malformed query return and freezes it,
> returning this error.
>
> error in alias lookup: missing or malformed local part
> (expected word or "<") in "error:nouser User Unknown"
>
> Any ideas how I could make exim deal with this the way I need it to?
Exim syntax is
alias: :fail:error message
See the documentation of aliasfile.
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