On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> I'm persisting because of the surprise suggested in your last reply.
> Otherwise, I'd just assume that I'm being an idiot and continue with the
> hack-around I'm using now.
Er, I'm afraid you are being an idiot. :-) See below.
> By the way, is it really sensible behaviour to fail on forward-file
> lookup failure, instead of defaulting to delivery into /var/mail (or
> wherever)?
Yes. If a user has set up a forward file so that they expect their mail
to be forwarded to some other mailbox, and the forward file contains a
syntax error, I don't believe there is any point in delivering into the
local mailbox, where the user won't think of looking. Better to bounce
mail so that somebody gets alerted somehow.
> never_users = sendmail : root
^^^^^^^^
> system_aliases:
> driver = aliasfile
> file = /etc/aliases
> search_type = lsearch
> file_transport = address_file
> pipe_transport = address_pipe
> user = sendmail
^^^^^^^
Need I say more?
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