> I have a virtual domain setup, but it isn't using > vpopmail/whatever - it's basically a custom setup based off some > how-to-setup-a-popmail-toaster pages I found on the 'net > > My virtual users are stored in e.g.: > > /var/qmail/popboxes/wwwdotorg.org/swarren/ > > I haven't been following this thread this time... When the original RE > change was made, I suggested requiring the VLOOKUP script to print the > user's domain name, instead of using an RE to determine it from the HOME > directory. > > Since the virtual user system knows this information, it seems having it > tell tmda-cgi what the information is keeps tmda-cgi from having explicit > knowledge of virtual user schemes or directory layout.
This seems like an excellent idea for TMDA 0.14!
> I don't know if the standard virtual user schemes print this information > from their script, but a wrapper around the vpopmail system couldn't be > that hard, or perhaps vpopmail is such that when calling the vuserinfo > script, you've already parsed the login ID into user/domain portions so > you can just return it directly? Certainly, the script I use as a > vpopmail1 VLOOKUP script accepts user_id and domain arguments, so the > information is already there. For the qmailuserassign, it could be > modified to search /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains to convert the name > in users/assign to domain name.
Sadly I don't know a lot about how people are implementing virtual users with tmda-cgi... but I think the real problem is how to guess the domain if the user logs in with just a username - no domain given. If we put that logic in a specific virtual-user-implementation stub instead of within tmda-cgi itself, it would make things a lot more maintaintable. I hate long ugly REs.
The best solution may be not touching the existing wrappers that exist, but creating a new programs in the stubs directory:
getdomain-qmailuserassign.py getdomain-vmailmgr1.py getdomain-vpopmail1.py getdomain-xams1.py
Each of which will, for the virtual user organization in question, take a username as the single argument, and return the domain name as the only output.
I suppose one could also modify the programs so that if you pass a '-d username' to it, it does the same thing. I don't really care which it is, but I'll need help to do it, since I don't know beans about virtual users.
Who on this devel list has written stubs for the virtual-user side of tmda-cgi? I really don't know a lot about how it's supposed to work, but am willing to learn.
-- Jim Ramsay "Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
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