Hi Philip,
Hopefully this will help. Here is the .aliases file:
final@???: paul@???
loop@???: final@???
When testing loop@???, it successfully matches then then
the rest of the routers continue with final@???.
What happens is that it doesn't re-evaluate the aliases file to match
final@???...
This could be considered a dangerous thing to do since it could cause mail
loops. Please feel free to tell me so!
Thanks
Tim
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Timothy Arnold wrote:
>
>> The file is for example:
>>
>> user@???: someone@???
>> loop@???: user@???
>>
>> If the user emails loop@???, if recursive lookups work, it should
>> email someone@??? but doesn't. it continues to the next
>> router believing that it hasn't matched user@???
>
> Is this something simple like you haven't changed the default aliasing
> router? By default, the system_aliases router looks up only the local
> part, not the whole address as you have it above. Given that you *have*
> set up an appropriate router, your expectation above is correct.
>
> Run a test using -d and -bt to see why it is doing what it is doing.
>
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