This is all great and wonderful, really......., but it is a POSTFIX ONLY solution...... I don't think that Sendmail-MySQL is stable (or whatever it is currently called), and frankly I don't think too highly of patching Sendmail at this time.
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 14:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Magnus Sundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ilja Booij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, DBMAIL Developers Mailinglist > <dbmail-dev@dbmail.org> > Subject: Re: [Dbmail-dev] Aliases Expansion, is dbmail the correct place? > Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:41:45 +0200 > > Ilja Booij wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:47:37 +0200, Magnus Sundberg > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hello list, > >>I stumbled on the failure to deliver mail to external recipients, > >>when the local user was over quota. > >> > >>Is dbmail the correct place to do the alias expansion? > >>Shouldn't this be done better in the MTA? > >>Postfix and Sendmail supports connection with some work to both > >>postgreSQL and MySQL. Isn't it better that we document the > >>installation process for both MTAs than trying to implement the > >>functionality ourselves. > >>I beleive that we will increase the scalability of the > >>application if we move the alias expansion to Postfix or Sendmail. > >> > > > > > > Is there is a way make the MTA doit the same way as DBMail does know. > > > > e.g: > > have an alias that forwards to an external address and to a local address. > > > > Hmm, I'm sure there's a way to do that.. Can you give an example of > > how to configure Postfix to do this? > > > > Ilja > > _______________________________________________ > > Dbmail-dev mailing list > > Dbmail-dev@dbmail.org > > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev > > From the postfix site, > > http://www.postfix.org/MYSQL_README.html > > In short the way to operate is, > 1. Install the postfix-mysql package, or compile postfix with > MySQL support. > > 2. edit main.cf and add > alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-aliases.cf > > 3. Edit the file above, I actually beleive it can read the dbmail > alias table with the right commands. > > Postfix supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL > > Magnus > > > -- |^^^ | | |^^| |^^^ Drew Northup, N1XIM |^^| | |^^^ \ / /^^\ /^^~ |__ | | | | | suoc.syr.edu |__| | |___ \/ |__| |__ | | | | | | savannah.nongnu.org/ | | | /\ | | | \ ___| |__| |__| |___ projects/plex86/ | |___ |___ / \ \__/ \__/
