Detail notation questions
Ken Murchison
ken at oceana.com
Sat Jul 12 08:12:55 EDT 2003
Pat Lashley wrote:
> What does lmtpd do when presented with an address which includes detail
> notation for a sub-mailbox that doesn't exist?
>
> Assume that there are mailboxs 'user.mumble.inbox', 'user.mumble.foo',
> and 'user.mumble.foo.bar'. When lmtpd is presented with the address
> 'mumble+foo.bar', it will deliver to user.mumble.foo.bar. But what
> does it do if given 'mumble+foo.oops' ?
If there is any type of delivery failure with a detailed address
(nonexistent submailbox, restrictive ACL, etc), the messages will be
delivered into the user's INBOX (provided that it exists and isn't
overquota).
There is no such fallback when trying to deliver directly to a shared
mailbox.
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