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From: wls@uwm.edu (Bill Stapleton)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Intermittent .forward problem
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.170409@uwm.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 90 22:04:09 GMT
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I write:
>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?
 
In article <1990Aug29.073958.200@dde.dk>, fll@dde.dk (Flemming Lau)
writes:
> 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.)

I set up a new test on one of our machines running 5.64, and it doesn't
seem
to matter which form you use - If there's two that are the same, one of
them
is suppressed.  I tried:

	"|vacation"		"| vacation"
	|"vacation"		| "vacation"
	|vacation		| vacation

They all work, but they're all subject to duplicate supression.  Any
other
suggestions?

By the way, did the person who started this thread (with a different
problem)
find their glitch?

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Bill Stapleton
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