Re: [Exim] query about verifying aliases

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Auteur: Dr Andrew C Aitchison
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Aan: Philip Hazel
CC: Steve Platt, exim-users
Onderwerp: Re: [Exim] query about verifying aliases
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Philip Hazel wrote:

> generates just one child address, this is a special case. I propose,
> therefore, to make a change like this:
>
> If aliasfile generates just one address, verification doesn't stop,
> but goes on to verify the new address, and this continues for as long
> as single children are generated.


> Views?


If the chain reaches a single, non-local address I propose that we accept.
(interrogating a remote system may cause hang-ups or timeouts, not to
mention loops).

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison        Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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