Re: Trouble with mailbox_transport=error:foo

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Trouble with mailbox_transport=error:foo
\ Ian Ward Comfort (14 May 2007)
. \ Ian Ward Comfort (14 May 2007)
. \ (Wietse Venema) (15 May 2007)
. . \ Ian Ward Comfort (15 May 2007)
. . . \ (Wietse Venema) (15 May 2007)
. . . . \ Ian Ward Comfort (15 May 2007)
. . . . . \ (Wietse Venema) (15 May 2007)
. . . . . . \ Ian Ward Comfort (15 May 2007)
. . \ (Wietse Venema) (15 May 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Trouble with mailbox_transport=error:foo
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Ian Ward Comfort
Date:	15 May 2007

On May 14, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Ian Ward Comfort:
>> On May 14, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
>>> Ian Ward Comfort:
>>>> On May 14, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
>>>>> Ian Ward Comfort:
>>>>>> I'm running Postfix 2.2.10 from a stock Red Hat RPM on RHEL4u4.
>>>>>> I'd like to disable delivery to local mailspools, while
>>>>>> retaining local
>>>>>> alias (and .forward) functionality. A post from this list
>>>>>> (dated 13 July 2001) suggests that this should work:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> mailbox_transport = error:local mailbox delivery is disabled
>>>>>
>>>>> It should, but it doesn't.
>>>>
>>>> Ah, I see. Thank you for the information.
>>>>
>>>>> Use local_transport instead.
>>>>
>>>> And switch to using virtual alias maps, I take it.
>>>
>>> In that case your error text was bogus - you were still doing
>>> delivery to local alias, and delivery to local .forward files.
>>
>> Perhaps so. I found it difficult to formulate a concise error
>> message explaining exactly what was disabled; my choice was selected
>> on the model of the mailbox_transport parameter name but it seems the
>> word "local" invites confusion.
>
> Maybe you can confirm that the proposed patch solves
> the problem.

Sorry, was building Postfix for the first time. The patch does not
apply in any obvious way to 2.2.10, but does indeed fix the issue on
the 2.5-20070511 snapshot.

---IWC