>
> Those recipients are also subject to virtual_alias_maps expansion.
> In other words, virtual_alias_maps expansion is recursive, up to
> configurable limits.
>
> Before asking further questions, I suggest that you review
>
> https://www.postfix.org/virtual.5.html (recursion limits).
>
> https://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html (rewriting order,
> see the 'big table').
>

OK - that answers my question! Thanks!



On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 9:37 AM Wietse Venema via Postfix-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

> BuzzSaw Code via Postfix-users:
> > I'm trying to understand the options I have if any to process the
> > recipients list returned by an ldap query.
> >
> > We have a virtual_alias_map that handles some basic distribution lists we
> > have, and the query returns a list of recipients as expected:
> >
> > [email protected],[email protected],[email protected]
> >
> > Are those recipients run through the cleanup process again ?  If not  is
>
> Those recipients are also subject to virtual_alias_maps expansion.
> In other words, virtual_alias_maps expansion is recursive, up to
> configurable limits.
>
> Before asking further questions, I suggest that you review
>
> https://www.postfix.org/virtual.5.html (recursion limits).
>
> https://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html (rewriting order,
> see the 'big table').
>
>         Wietse
>
> > there another way we can do some recipient cleanup after the
> > virtual_alias_map is applied ?
> >
> > There are some cases where we would like to do a rewrite of the recipient
> > addresses returned by that query.
>
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