Sieve forwarding loop destroys e-mail
Jo Rhett
jrhett at netconsonance.com
Sun Mar 30 17:58:35 EDT 2008
Joseph Brennan wrote:
> No, it is just totally wrong that an action other than 'discard' will
> result in mail silently vanishing. Maybe this is what does happen, but
> it is not what _should_ happen as was asked. It _should_ either go to
> inbox (grounds: ignore a bad rule)
You are assuming that a bad rule is something a computer program can
figured out. I would ask that you spend some time determining how the
program could determine it is a bad rule, and provide a patch to fix
this behavior. (in short -- it's harder than you think)
> or back to sender (grounds: not deliverable as configured).
Only if you want to become a source for backscatter.
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Jo Rhett
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