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
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  Gordon Rowell                        [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  VP Engineering
  Network Server Solutions Group       http://www.e-smith.com
  Mitel Networks Corporation           http://www.mitel.com


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