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 > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail-dev mailing list > Dbmail-dev@dbmail.org > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev