Where does a message go if the local part is missing?
I did
echo |mailsubj "test" '@localhost'
and the logs show
1999-08-12 12:15:22.929224 new msg 38769
1999-08-12 12:15:22.929253 info msg 38769: bytes 224 from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] qp 5226 uid 500
1999-08-12 12:15:22.932768 starting delivery
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote:
Where does a message go if the local part is missing?
To the bit-bucket.
I did
echo |mailsubj "test" '@localhost'
and the logs show
1999-08-12 12:15:22.929224 new msg 38769
1999-08-12 12:15:22.929253 info msg 38769: bytes 224 from
[EMAIL
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 12:32:07PM -0400,
"Timothy L. Mayo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote:
On the contrary! qmail successfully delivered the message to the user
named "". It threw it on the floor like you asked it to. :)
This behavior seems to be broken.
On Aug 12 1999, Mate Wierdl wrote:
Where does a message go if the local part is missing?
(...)
So the delivery is not successful, but where did the message go?
AFAIK, it's silently discarded. And this is the behavior upon
which some programs may depend.
BTW, the
