rough zmailer treatment on .forward expansion

[James MacKinnon <jmack@phys.ualberta.ca>]

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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