On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, jan groene wrote:

> hi,
>
> >it's not possible to get this right due wildcard aliases and it's
> >perfectly legal to add  foo.boo.com  if the alias  *.boo.com  is defined.
> >the first will have the precedence ...
>
> an example....
> i've got cold.com and warm.com in domains.tab. now i define a domain alias
> cold.com (yea, the same name as above) for warm.com. the result:
> if i try to log in as [EMAIL PROTECTED], xmail tries to open the mailbox for
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]! and this applies to any user modification via ctrl commands!
>
> mail delivery seems to be handled correct.

now real domains have the precedence on aliases, at the cost of a double
lookup for aliased accounts.


> nevertheless i find that a bare check should be implemented to avoid these
> problems.

a bare check means to give the CTRL user the illusion of a full coverage,
that is not due wildcard domains.



- Davide


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