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Re: rough zmailer treatment on .forward expansion
James et al:
I experienced the same problem. Sadly, I didn't use the router test and
learned this one the hard way.
My workaround was a script that grooms users' .forward files - removing
invalid ones, and ensuring the owner and permissions were right. (James,
please respond to my email if you'd like a copy).
I'd be interested in a ZMailer based fix here too.
Thanks,
Neal Morgan
>
> Hello all,
>
> Does anyone know why zmailer (2.99.55) might be
> not handling empty .forward expansion in a graceful way?
>
> I set an empty .forward (0 bytes) on a test account, and then
> only with a 'router -i' test, I got back a continuous series
> of delivered mail messages through our MTA from the MAILER-DAEMON
> ( 30 or 40, until I quickly removed the .forward file) all similar
> to:
>
>
> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:27:53 -0600
> From: Error Channel <MAILER-DAEMON>
> To: prtest
> Cc: The Post Office <postmaster>
> Subject: Error in /srv/users/u/xxxxx/.forward .forward expansion
>
> NO valid recipient addresses!
> Verify source file protection/ownership/access-path
> Current effective UID = 0
>
>
> This could cause a lot of grief if a user is in a list
> and a .forward exists but is empty.
>
>
> Is there some configuration setting I can use, or do I need
> to modify router/functions.c as a temp fix ?
>
>
> Cheers,
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