From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:49 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <47ff785949f474506048701186b50f22@ladd.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] upas aliases Topicbox-Message-UUID: 78f6e70c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i don't know if anyone else has fallen into this trap, but i don't see it on the archives. i had been following along and mindlessly using aliases like red.forman: local!red this is fine until you slip up and have oldguy: local!red.forman which doesn't work if you're using a somewhat standard rewrite rule set. this is because local! is analogous to "builtin" in rc. it disables further alias expansion. the wierd bit is that mail somealias will work while a smtp ping, which uses upas/send -x will not. that is unless you create the directory /mail/box/somealias. it's all quite peculiar. and i believe sending to that alias should always fail. does anyone think differently? - erik