James B. Byrne:
> Using '/' is dictated by cyrus-imap. Formerly cyrus-imap used '.' but
> with the upgrade to v3 the use of '.' was deprecated and '/'
> recommended in its place. Which we did.
>
> My question is: what rfc makes the '/' illegal in a local delivery
> address?
The Postfix local delivery agent uses the address extension to
determine the location of a .forward file (parameter: forward_path).
Therefore, extensions with '/' must be ignored.
The default search path is:
forward_path = $home/.forward${recipient_delimiter}${extension}, $home/.forward
Wietse
