On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:21:20PM +0200, Alain Spineux wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Joseph Brennan <brennan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Jo Rhett <jrhett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I would ask that you spend some time determining how the > > > program could determine it is a bad rule, and provide a patch to fix this > > > behavior. (in short -- it's harder than you think) > > > > A mail delivery system that loses mail is buggy. I don't need to look > > at the code to know that. > > > > You can tell me no one has time to fix it, and in an open source project > > I can respect that. But it is a bug. > > Look at this: > > If my script is > > redirect another.address@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > I expect my mailbox to stay empty, because this is what redirect is > supposed to do! > If I found and email in my mailbox this is a BUG, because the script I wrote > should never let an email come in! I know, I know - pick me. How about this one? discard; It turns out that a mail delivery system that has been configured in a way that loses mail has a bug _in_the_person_who_configured_it_. Now it may be that the language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot, but that's different from being buggy. Bron. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
