Davide,
Doesn't he still have the problem that xMail doesn't give preference to
exact alias matches before the wildcard matches?
As I recall you once said that if you had * and any other alias the
behaviour was unpredictable.
Bill
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>From: Davide Libenzi[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 6:53 AM
>To: CLEMENT Francis
>Cc: XMail List (E-mail)
>Subject: RE: [xmail] Using wildcard aliases and normal users at same time
>
>
>On 20-Mar-2001 CLEMENT Francis wrote:
>> Hi, Davide,
>>
>> I want to implement a "collector" domain to xmail and still have normal
>>pop3
>> users in same domain, e.g. :
>>
>> Domain to add : somedomain.com
>>
>> Real pop3 users (maintenance and admin purpose) :
>> - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> Collector pop3 user :
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] how will receive all *@somedomain.com except mails
>>for
>> the real pop3 users listed below
>> (This pop3 user will be used by my customer mail server to retrieve mails
>> via pop3 and dispatch them in its mail server)
>>
>> Supplemental aliases:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> So i believe that i have to setup the three accounts "postmaster",
>> "webmaster" and "others" as normal pop3 accounts and add an "hostmaster"
>> alias "pointing to" "webmaster" and a wildcard alias "*" "pointing to"
>> "others" account in the aliases.tab file.
>>
>> Is it correct ?
>>
>> Is xmail looking first at mailusers.tab file (for real accounts) then if
>> nothing found search for aliases.tab for "real aliases" (exact match) and
>> then for "wildcard aliases" (in order from more restrictive to less
>> restrictive) ?
>> Or have i to do some others tasks (custom domain or filter, ...)
>>
>> In any cases, for wildcard aliases, is the original RCPT TO kept as is or
>> changed to the pop3 account name (in my example [EMAIL PROTECTED])? (my
>> customer must have the ability to dispatch the mails in its own server
>>after
>> retrieval of the messages from the pop3 account)
>
>XMail try to lookup real users before aliases.
>
>
>
>- Davide
>
>
