On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 07:59:16PM -0600, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Apologies for straying off-topic...I suggest any follow-ups to this go offlist. > [...] > Inbound forwarding is handled by the 'local' > delivery rule and the matching domains are rewritten on outbound > messages. The domains that remain visible have inbound > forwarding controlled by mailertable entries and thus do not > do outbound masquerading. These can be done with ofmipd - see http://cr.yp.to > I also have many mail groups that > are nested and require recursive passes through the aliases and > .forward files to expand. (For example company-sales would > contain office1-sales, office2-sales, and only the officeN-sales > aliases would have the actual users, and some of those users may > have multiple addresses in their .forward, perhaps including another > group mentioned in the aliases). Sendmail will recursively > expand the groups and discard any duplicates that might appear > when including overlapping groups. An assortment of the aliases > and .forward files contain pipes to programs. Qmail may be > capable of these things but I haven't managed to find the > documentation describing it. (I'm not sure about postfix on these > counts either). Duplicate weeding is more problematic as it goes against the "straight-through paper path" design of qmail. It can be done by running mail through procmail or similar. However, duplicate weeding does have the possibility of lost mail. Gordon -- Gordon Rowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] VP Engineering Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
