On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, David Stern wrote:
: $ man aliases
:
: [..]
: Loops can not occur, since no message will be sent to any person
: more than once.
: [..]
:
: "Loops cannot occur, ..". So, if I make an alias for tsawyer to hfinn,
: and an alias for hfinn to dstern, and I send a mail to tsawyer, then
: who should get it?
:
: First I thought that meant hfinn should get it, but that clearly does
: not occur. When I read "loops cannot occur", I get a sense of
: absolute, iow if I make an alias from tsawyer to hfinn, then mail sent
: to tsawyer goes to hfinn, no matter what alias I make for hfinn.
: Otherwise, a loop would occur if I were to alias dstern back to the
: tsawyer.
:
: If this isn't a bug, then the man page is either erroneous, or appeals
: to a form of logic that I don't understand.
:
: All I really want is to mail for root to go to dstern, and for mail to
: real-root to go to root, not get looped back to dstern. How can I do
: this?
:
: Someone in the know, please lend a clue to the uninitiated. Thanks.
I can't think of an easy way to do this using only /etc/aliases and/or
.forward files since aliases are edited in turn - that is "real-root"
evaluates to "root", but "root" evaluates to "dstern".
If it is acceptable, you could set an alias like this:
root: root,dstern
It is this situation the manpage addresses ... mail to "root" will be
delivered to root's mailbox AND to dstern. (See? No loops :> )
I suppose you could then install a procmail rule for root that nulls all
mail not explicitly addressed to "real-root".
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