Re: .qmail and looping and bouncing

[D. J. Bernstein]

David J. Dooling writes:
> Once mail arrived at the desired machine, sendmail would
> recognize that the .forward file contained the same address that just
> received the mail and not re-forward to the same address multiple
> times, but simply terminate the delivery at the address in .forward.

qmail's dot-forward compatibility tool will handle that too.

The equivalent construction in .qmail is

   | condredirect "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [ "@$HOST" != "@the.nfs.server" ]
   ./Mailbox

---Dan