Re: strange message for moderation: weird list aliases??

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- --On Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:32:12 -0500 Andrew Sullivan
<ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 09:29:12AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> > rejected on ... try sending to 'garbage(at)postgresql(dot)org', and it should
>> > bounce back with 'no such user' ...
>>
>> Well...
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [HACKERS] test
>> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:22:56 -0800
>> From: Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
>> Organization: Command Prompt, Inc.
>> To: hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
>
> But see the attachment here. Which raises the question, why did the sample
> we're discussing get by? It's not an address at that server. . .

Actually, yes it is ... its how majordomo deals with virtual domains ... when
you send to pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, it re-writes that as
pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@<hostname> within the virtual tables, and then
passes *that* to the aliases file for processing:

pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org: "|/usr/local/majordomo/bin/mj_enqueue
- -r -d postgresql.org -l pgsql-hackers -P10 -p10"
pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org-request: "|/usr/local/majordomo/bin/mj_enqueue
- -q -d postgresql.org -l pgsql-hackers -P10 -p10"
pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org-owner: "|/usr/local/majordomo/bin/mj_enqueue
- -o -d postgresql.org -l pgsql-hackers -P10 -p10"
owner-pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org-owner
pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org-subscribe: "|/usr/local/majordomo/bin/mj_enqueue
- -c subscribe -d postgresql.org -l pgsql-hackers -P10 -p10"
pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org-subscribe-digest:
"|/usr/local/majordomo/bin/mj_enqueue -c subscribe-set --req setting=digest -d
postgresql.org -l pgsql-hackers -P10 -p10"
pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org-unsubscribe: "|/usr/local/majordomo/bin/mj_enqueue
- -c unsubscribe -d postgresql.org -l pgsql-hackers -P10 -p10"

It doesn't by pass any rules sending to that address, it just by passes the
virtual rewrite tables in postfix ...

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