--- Hello, First apologies if this is the wrong mailing list for documentation patches.
This patch (based on the 3.2.4 sources) tries to improve the documentation of the owner- alias handling. I hope I patched the correct files as I'm not entirely sure which files are generated. The first part adds a "link" to reset_owner_alias to help the reader to understand the effects of owner- handling in more detail (at first I found only the short comment in man 5 aliases and was confused what actually happens). The second part explains that the last owner- alias "wins" when choosing the sender of the generated mails which I found by trial-and-error when looking at my owner- aliases configuration (at first I thought the first owner- alias is chosen). Regards Simon proto/aliases | 1 + proto/postconf.proto | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/proto/aliases b/proto/aliases index 1c33bed..1351faa 100644 --- a/proto/aliases +++ b/proto/aliases @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ # This is typically used to direct delivery errors to the maintainer of # a mailing list, who is in a better position to deal with mailing # list delivery problems than the originator of the undelivered mail. +# See \fBreset_owner_alias\fR for details. # .PP # The \fIvalue\fR contains one or more of the following: # .IP \fIaddress\fR diff --git a/proto/postconf.proto b/proto/postconf.proto index 8394f75..67f3794 100644 --- a/proto/postconf.proto +++ b/proto/postconf.proto @@ -14726,7 +14726,9 @@ list members. </p> <p> The default behavior of Postfix 2.8 and later is to keep the owner-alias attribute of the parent alias, when delivering mail to -a child alias that does not have its own owner alias. Then, local +a child alias that does not have its own owner alias. If the child has an +owner-alias attribute it overwrites the one from the parent, meaning the last +defined owner-alias in an alias expansion chain will win. Then, local addresses from that child alias will be written to a new queue file, and a temporary error with one local address will not affect delivery to other mailing list members. </p> -- 2.15.0 -- + privacy is necessary + using gnupg http://gnupg.org + public key id: 0x92FEFDB7E44C32F9
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