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From: fll@dde.dk (Flemming Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Intermittent .forward problem
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.073958.200@dde.dk>
Date: 29 Aug 90 07:39:58 GMT
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wls@uwm.edu (Bill Stapleton) writes:


>There's also a related problem that we haven't fixed:  If two users in a list
>have the exact same thing in their .forward file (say "|vacation"), one of them
>gets dropped as being a duplicate (wrong).  We're still running 5.61 here;  Has
>this problem been fixed in a later version?

One might argue that the problem you mention is just a "bug" in the 
sendmail documentation. I also have had the problem but I found 
that changing the "|vacation" to |"vacation" solved the problem. (In 
parts of the parsing of the contents of the .forward file "|vacation"
is interpreted as an address and therefore duplicates are suppressed.
If you white |"vacation" the | is interpreted correctly all the way.)


-- 
Obviously people living under such a system are not happy. 
They just think they are.     
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