On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 10:40:11AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: >> 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).
Hello, Sorry for the late reply. > I have updated some text, however it already says that owner-name Thank you. Is this change publicly available (before the next release)? > will direct delivery errors, and I don't see why that would change > for nested aliases. That is: > > aliases: > list-a: aa, list-b, ac, ... > owner-list-a: us...@example.com > > list-b: ba, bb bc, ... > owner-list-b: us...@example.com > > Sending to list-b will always direct delivery errors to owner-list-b. I think it's obvious if you already know how this feature works, but I thought it can't hurt to clearly mention the fact. The whole owner- feature felt arcane and underdocumented to me so I tried to make it clearer to casual readers. Regards Simon -- + privacy is necessary + using gnupg http://gnupg.org + public key id: 0x92FEFDB7E44C32F9
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