> 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
