Following-up to an older thread:
Wietse Venema wrote:
> Barney Desmond:
> > 2009/6/13 Wietse Venema <[email protected]>:
> > > One final input: be sure to give each alias an owner-alias so that
> > > Postfix will store the result of alias expansion in new queue
> > > files.
> > >
> > > Otherwise, the result of expansion will not be stored. After failure
> > > of delivery to one local recipient in the expansion, the whole
> > > alias will be expanded again when delivery is retried, which is
> > > something that the other recipients will not appreciate.
>
> With the equivalent of:
>
> /etc/aliases:
> joe: :include:/hoime/majordomo/joelist
> owner-joe: someone-who-maintains-the-list
>
> The Postfix local delivery daemon will expand the alias joe and
> store the result in a new queue file. This is triggered by the
> existence of the owner-joe alias. That alias should always exist
> with real mailing lists.
Does this hold true for address expansion within
virtual_alias_domains? In other words, if I have
virtual_alias_domains = example.com
and then I set up a virtual alias map
[email protected] -> [email protected]
-> [email protected]
[etc]
such that all of the members of [email protected] are external to
postfix, do I still need to define
[email protected]
in order to avoid the potential repeat deliveries in case of
deferrals?
Regards,
Matthew Snyder
University of Pennsylvania Law School
