I've just dived onto my test machine before heading home and done a quick test…
Using "exim -bt" to test two addresses, with *one* of them aliased to *:blackhole:* only made the copy to that address disappear; the other recipient would have its copy accepted, routed and delivered. So the upshot is: ignore my previous suggestion about it being a possible factor in Jaime's problems. Home time now! :-) Cheers, Mike B-) On 14 December 2015 at 17:16, Jeremy Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/12/15 16:55, Mike Brudenell wrote: > > I might be wrong, but I have a faint recollection that if a recipient > > address is aliased to *:blackhole:* then the message in its entirety is > > discarded; it is not delivered to any other recipients. (This differs > from > > aliasing a recipient address to */dev/null* for example.) > > > > Can someone confirm this, or whether my memory is faulty? (The *Exim > > Specification* isn't 100% clear on this: only talking about "if other > > redirection items are present", which is different from "if other > > recipients are present".) > > The Warning in the docs is speaking specifically about a multi-item > list, and in the context of "particular local part". I don't think > that would touch any other recipients, if they were as originally > accepted for a message. How it would play with multiple redirect > routers, I don't know. > -- > Jeremy > > > -- > ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ > -- Systems Administrator & Change Manager IT Services, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK Tel: +44-(0)1904-323811 Web: www.york.ac.uk/it-services Disclaimer: www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
