On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 03:54:11PM -0400, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following system (among others) in locals: > > smtp.spl.harvard.edu > > According to the docs, then, mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] should > work, right? It should go to the local USER. > > Our users are "ldaponly" and in the LDAP directory I enter > alternateMailAddress-es for several locals, which works fine (so if I > added [EMAIL PROTECTED] to every user, it would work). But I > can't do it for every local, we have over 600. > > I'm almost certainly missing something important, so if anyone has > ideas please share. >
This is a known limitation of qmail-ldap. The main reason for this is that in an ISP environment you do not want this behaviour. It is considered bad when a customer uses the domainname of a other customer. On www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap is a example how to rewrite a domain to a other one with virtualhosts, the alias user and the forward utility. At least I think I have seen it there. Something similar could be done with a catchall account. In most cases mail addresses of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] are generated by a missconfiguration. For example qmail has a few control files to fix this (defaultdomain, plusdomain, etc.). At least I never found a good reason why something like this should be done. -- :wq Claudio
