From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:28:44 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] upas aliases From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 790fd064-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > the alias were in this form > a1: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 local!a2 > a2: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 local!a3 Okay, let's run with this. > where a3 was a "real user." =C2=A0the rewrite rules were standard, > except that the appropriate domain name was subsituted in. > someone had created /mail/box/a2. =C2=A0this 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. =C2=A0the 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