On 04/30/02 at 10:29, Warren Michelsen wrote:
> At 1:03 PM -0400 4/30/02, Bill Cole wrote:
> >At 4:37 PM +0100 4/30/02, Ron Hahn imposed structure on a stream of
> >electrons, yielding:
> >>
> >>Will bar all email addresses starting with "j" except "james"..
> >>I.e. Does the rule parser bail out when it satisfies a rule or not?
> >
> >No, the router restarts from the top every time a rule is satisfied.
> >An address is re-run until it makes it through unchanged.
>
> I thought I remembered reading, on this list, that once an address
> resolved, via routing rules, to a local account, the mail would be
> delivered instead of being run through the router yet again...
The Router docs say:
The Router takes a parsed E-mail address (i.e. the domain and local
parts of the address) and uses the Table, scanning its records from top
to bottom. If an applicable record is found, it is applied as described
below and the modified local and/or domain parts are processed with the
Router from the beginning.
Finally, if no record is found, the messages is routed. If the domain
name is not empty, the messages is routed to the SMTP module for
delivery to the E-mail address specified by the resulting local and
domain parts. If the domain name is empty, the messages is routed to
the Local Delivery module for storing in a user mailbox.
So, messages are not delivered to local accounts until the address no
longer matches any router records, not as soon as it matches a local
account name. In fact, as the second paragraph indicates, the local
delivery module doesn't even see the address until it no longer matches any
router records.
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