From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:42:10 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <> References: <> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] upas aliases Topicbox-Message-UUID: 79173ef8-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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. i don't think there's a bug either. i had intended the original email to be an illustration of what not to do and why. it is a little bit problematic, however, when smtp ping believes that successful alias expantion is the same thing as deliverability. send does take the edge off by checking that /mail/box/$boxname exists. the orginal problem i was looking at was the fact that smtp ping was succeeding for unwritable mail boxes. i had thought that removing the write bits would disable a mail box. it seems like it would be better if send -x would finish the job and verifiy deliverability or just expand aliases and leave the question of deliverability to someone else. - erik