On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 12:28:21PM -0800, Darrell May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Thanks Gordon. Follow up comments as follows:
>
> e-mail aliases:
>
> Yes I know the group aliases are automatic and this is a big +. The aliases
> most of my clients require are the usual info, sales, support, webmaster
> redirected to the appropriate individual person or group.
The pseudonyms in 4.1 provide this. You can "alias" a name to any
existing user or group. So you can have a pseudonym of "webmaster" to
the existing user "darrel" or group "sysadmin" or whatever.
Ouch, the web panel for this is missing from 4.1beta2 :-(
Hmm, that makes it hard to comment on....we'll put out an update with
the panel included :-)
> This is what the
> e-smith-aliases-0.3-1.noarch.rpm offered and I was hoping this functionality
> could make it into the 4.1 release. I just installed the same rpm (as you
> mentioned it would work on 4.1) and it seems to work fine so why not include
> this in the release?
I gave a few reasons why that particular module is not included. I
believe that the support in 4.1 (with the missing web panel :-( ) will
provide exactly what you need without having to enter comma separated
lists of users in aliases.
> tape backup:
>
> Thanks for agreeing to add Taper in the final release! This will of course
> require the ability to enable/disable flexbackup as an admin choice.
Naturally. We didn't want to force anyone to use any particular backup
mechanism but would provide a reasonable default if people want to use
it.
> webmail:
>
> Thanks for reporting the Spell Check issue is being fixed and for checking
> into the SENT folder and LDAP issues I mentioned.
Sure.
> PPTP/VPN:
>
> I agree the remote user to site is important and glad to hear you have this
> capability coming in this next release. I also have a huge demand for site
> to site VPN.
This is an order of magnitude more complex. We are aware of the need for it :-)
Gordon
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