Victor Duchovni: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:39:53AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > > > > if I configure my /etc/aliases to read: > > > test: |/bin/false, u...@external-server > > > owner-test: u...@external-server > > > > > > I correctly receive E-Mail to test and owner test at > > > u...@external-server, but the error-message which is generated by > > > /bin/false is send back to the original sender. > > > > Apparently, owner-foo works for email addresses but not commands. > > That would be a bug. > > It is not easy to solve, since bounces are not sent by local(8), so > we would need new a queue-file with "owner-test" as the new sender, > but there is no secure mechanism to record a command as the recipient > in the queue file.
What about using the bounce_one() approach? local(8) already solved the notification problem with mail delivery loops that way. Wietse