Charles Cazabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 1 September 2000 at 13:35:04
-0600
> David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The man page for bouncesaying is rather misleading.
> [...]
> > | bouncesaying "This address no longer accepts mail"
> > &[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > As described by the man page, this should send a bounce message, and
> > then deliver a copy via the logem alias. But it doesn't; it bounces
> > it and stops delivering, so nothing is ever delivered via the logem
> > alias.
> >
> > Obvsiouly the workaround is to forward to another alias that does the
> > bounce; multiple forwards will duplicate the message. And that works
> > fine.
>
> Instead of forwarding, change it to a local delivery instruction, and have
> the bouncesaying line second. Then everything will work the way you
> wanted.
Hey, that's a particular combination I hadn't thought of. That should
work, indeed. (The funny handling of forwarding is, um, funny. Part
of why it took me a couple hours to figure it all out was that, using
forwrading, the order of the lines *didn't* matter.)
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