I've just dived onto my test machine before heading home and done a quick
test…
Using "exim -bt" to test two addresses, with *one* of them aliased to
*:blackhole:* only made the copy to that address disappear; the other
recipient would have its copy accepted, routed and delivered.
So the upshot is: ignore my previous suggestion about it being a possible
factor in Jaime's problems.
Home time now! :-)
Cheers,
Mike B-)
On 14 December 2015 at 17:16, Jeremy Harris <jgh@???> wrote:
> On 14/12/15 16:55, Mike Brudenell wrote:
> > I might be wrong, but I have a faint recollection that if a recipient
> > address is aliased to *:blackhole:* then the message in its entirety is
> > discarded; it is not delivered to any other recipients. (This differs
> from
> > aliasing a recipient address to */dev/null* for example.)
> >
> > Can someone confirm this, or whether my memory is faulty? (The *Exim
> > Specification* isn't 100% clear on this: only talking about "if other
> > redirection items are present", which is different from "if other
> > recipients are present".)
>
> The Warning in the docs is speaking specifically about a multi-item
> list, and in the context of "particular local part". I don't think
> that would touch any other recipients, if they were as originally
> accepted for a message. How it would play with multiple redirect
> routers, I don't know.
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