Jason McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:47:15PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2021/01/21 12:43, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:15:48AM +0100, Martin Vahlensieck wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > I think the backslash at the beginning of the line is an error.
> > > > 
> > > > Best,
> > > > 
> > > > Martin
> > > > 
> > > > Index: vacation.1
> > > > ===================================================================
> > > > RCS file: /home/reposync/cvs//src/usr.bin/vacation/vacation.1,v
> > > > retrieving revision 1.23
> > > > diff -u -p -r1.23 vacation.1
> > > > --- vacation.1  30 Nov 2015 17:03:05 -0000      1.23
> > > > +++ vacation.1  20 Jan 2021 18:13:50 -0000
> > > > @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ For example, your
> > > >  .Pa .forward
> > > >  file might have:
> > > >  .Bd -literal -offset indent
> > > > -\eeric, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a allman eric"
> > > > +eric, "|/usr/bin/vacation -a allman eric"
> > > >  .Ed
> > > >  .Pp
> > > >  which would send messages to you (assuming your login name was eric) 
> > > > and
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > i killed it. thanks,
> > > jmc
> > > 
> > 
> > Peopple still use other MTAs on OpenBSD though..
> > 
> 
> yep, but i'm not sure we can try to cover all that. out forward(5) shows
> a different syntax. i think if you use a non-base mailer, you need to
> adjust, rather than the other way round.

Well -- forward(5) is incorrect. It fails to document the \ aspect of the
syntax.

The behaviour of this file is defined by the sum of the programs which
parse it, and the pre-smtpd behaviours are the truth.

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