I see what you're saying. Well, when I use an "&", I get an error message kicked back of "no user by that name". Also, I think I mentioned this before, but we are currently using the pipe "|" and its working with other usernames in their .qmail files for forwarding functions.
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 13:35, Tom Collins wrote: > On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 09:52 AM, John Shireley wrote: > > I understand that, but for some reason this is the way we've always > > done > > it. It works, so I never questioned the practice. Ok, testing this > > again, it seems like if I only have one address in there it only > > delivers the message once, correctly. But if I have more than one addy > > in there, the message somehow gets stuck in the queue and repeatedly > > delivers itself. What would cause that kind of behavior? > > Until you switch from "|" to "&", I think that all bets are off. > You'll have to look at the source code to qmail-local to see how it > handles "|[EMAIL PROTECTED]", because it's undefined in the documentation. > > Based on my understanding of how .qmail files are handled, if the exit > code from a program execution (a line starting with "|") isn't 0, then > it's classified as an unsuccessful delivery and will be requeued. > > What happens if you use "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and all email accounts are > valid? > > -- > Tom Collins > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- John Shireley IT Department Cook Incorporated 812.339.2235 ext. 2027 jshireley @ cook-inc.com
