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["Mail administrator, Otto Makela" <address@concealed>]

On 22/05/2025 18.11, Mail administrator, Otto Makela wrote:
> I've now had a couple of instances where mailing list owners have
> wanted to rename their lists, but also retain the old list address
> so messages sent there can be forwarded to the new list address.
>
> However, I've found that just trying to add to /etc/aliases things like
>      old-listname:    new-listname
>      old-listname:    address@concealed
> do not really cut it when using virtual aliases, trying to send to
> the old-listname address you get somewhat strange bounce messages
> asserting that new-listname just doesn't exist.
>
> Is the correct format documented somewhere, somehow my searching
> skills just aren't sufficient for this?

Lacking any reactions to this, I've resorted to just using

old-listname:    address@concealed

in /etc/aliases which will produce bounces of the format

551 User has moved; please try address@concealed

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address@concealed (Mail Administrator, Otto J. Makela)