At 11:56 AM -0400 9/17/02, ted crane  imposed structure on a stream 
of electrons, yielding:
>>The router table includes
>>       <*> = spamtrap
>
>Having slept on it, it's clear why this doesn't work even if
>the rule appears as the last line in the router rules:
>- the router translates all left-over local parts to spamtrap
>- the router loops
>- the router translates spamtrap to spamtrap
>
>***Question: is there a wqay to force keywords (null, error, 
>spamtrap, unknown)
>to terminate router looping?  If not, should there be?

It strikes me as a feature that would be redundant for many and good 
for a few. It *might* cause problems if someone is playing 
interesting games with their router to route stuff back out of those.

>Let's approach the question a different way...
>
>If the "own domain name" is "mail.domain.com",
>then the foreign aliasing rule
>   <*@mail.domain.com> = spamtram
>doesn't work, because the domain part was set to an empty string
>as the first part of the router processing.
>*** Question: correct?
>*** Observed Behavior: correct!
>
>However, the documentation says,
>"Foreign Alias records contains a full name in the angle brackets
>and the Router scans them when it processes every address
>(not only the addresses with an empty domain name part)."
>*** Question: doesn't this contradict the Observed Behavior?

I don't think so, but maybe I'm missing something.

>So, again, how to accomplish, "A final rule which forces
>all unmatched local parts to spamtrap" ??

I think this should work:

<unknown> = spamtrap
-- 
Bill Cole
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


#############################################################
This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to
  the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Send administrative queries to  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Reply via email to