Actually, in postfix's case, it appears not as you can specify the exact query 
that is used to lookup the address. The enables you to do string manipulation 
that would replace any *'s with %'s.. or something like that. 

Anyone else see a problem with it? 


On Tuesday 19 October 2004 02:43 pm, Blake Mitchell wrote:
> Yeah, it would likely necessitate an alias lookup daemon. I have seen a
> couple requests for such a thing on the list already, so that may be the
> direction things end up anyway. Of course that adds just that much more
> complexity to the whole thing, which has to be weighed against the
> benefits.
>
> Micah wrote:
> >The only downside of this I see is that I use the alias table as a lookup
> >table for postfix to accept/deny addresses at the smtp stage, which is
> > much more efficient, I have a feeling that it would barf on a regexp
> > address.
> >
> >Actually, now that I think about it, would it handle a [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >style
> >address? I'll dig around and see about this.
> >
> >I don't know anything about sendmail, that would be a valid question there
> > if anyone uses similar function for that MTA.
> >
> >-Micah
>
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