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From: dmil...@amfes.com ("Daniel L. Miller")
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Subject: Re: Address re-writes
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:32:39 -0700
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On 4/3/2012 10:27 AM, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Daniel L. Miller:
>> and fax-access:
>> mess...@inbound.efax.com REDIRECT theal...@amfes.com
> As documented, REDIRECT affects all recipients. It is meant to yank
> mail out of its normal path, and was originally implemented for
> emergencies (that is also why the feature is not subject to canonical,
> virtual alias, or BCC address mappings, and none of this is properly
> documented).
>
> In other words, don't use REDIRECT for routine mail processing.
>
>
Ok - I'm using the wrong tool for the job. So - please let me rephrase
my question.
What would be the proper way to redirect inbound mail originally
destined for a valid user, to an alias which can be expanded/redirected
through normal handling, based on the sender?
--
Daniel