Viktor Dukhovni:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 02:46:26PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > postfix-3.6-20201025 has a preliminary implementation to limit the
> > envelope senders that a local user may specify to the Postfix
> > sendmail (or postdrop) command. The real work is done in a library
> > module, so that similar functionality can later be added to the
> > Postfix SMTP daemon.
>
> Nice! A nit correction and a question:
>
> - Typo: in example:
>
> --- proto/postconf.proto
> +++ proto/postconf.proto
> @@ -17947,7 +17947,7 @@ address when the '@' and <i>domain</i> part match.
> </dd>
> <pre>
> /etc/postfix/login_senders:
> # Allow both the bare username and the user@domain forms.
> - /(.+)/ $1 $1...@example.com/
> + /(.+)/ $1 $1...@example.com
> </pre>
Ack.
> <p> This feature is available in Postfix 3.6 and later. </p>
>
> - Question, with "#" as the prefix for numeric uids, how is one supposed
> to create indexed tables with these as lookup keys? The below looks
> like a comment to me:
>
> #12345 anonym...@example.com
Yes, this would limit the usability to PCRE, LDAP, *SQL.
Postmap does not expand \ddd octal sequences in its input.
What about making the '#' a suffix instead? That is still unlikely
to clash with existing user naming schemes. BTW I realize that there
is no unit test for numerical UIDs; that needs to be fixed, too.
Wietse
