From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] upas aliases
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:28:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a0909272228y7e141beavf1a3fc4fb02f7fbd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef1e18d95c941e89114c3a018b849fbd@ladd.quanstro.net>
> the alias were in this form
> a1: local!a2
> a2: local!a3
Okay, let's run with this.
> where a3 was a "real user." the rewrite rules were standard,
> except that the appropriate domain name was subsituted in.
> someone had created /mail/box/a2. this was the confusing bit.
> mail -x a1 -> local!a2
> mail a1 -> dead.letter (no /mail/box/a2/mbox)
>
> so it's confusing that mailing a2 works but the a1
> does not. the problem is with my misuse of local in
> the aliases, not with upas or the default rules.
>
> although send could check mailboxes a bit more
> carefully for deliverability.
I don't think there's a software bug here.
The system is behaving exactly as you configured it to:
it can expand the alias but not deliver the mail.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-28 5:28 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <<dd6fe68a0909272125n6b907dd0g459c4a587f66b372@mail.gmail.com>
2009-09-28 5:07 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-28 5:28 ` Russ Cox [this message]
[not found] <<dd6fe68a0909272228y7e141beavf1a3fc4fb02f7fbd@mail.gmail.com>
2009-09-28 5:42 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-28 5:54 ` Russ Cox
2009-09-28 4:00 erik quanstrom
2009-09-28 4:25 ` Russ Cox
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