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Postfix Archives: Re: questions regarding aliases database conf

Re: questions regarding aliases database configuration

Subject: Re: questions regarding aliases database configuration
From: Christopher T. Beers (cbeersbu.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 18:12:09 CST

> This is a difference with sendmail.
>
> Postfix: user == usermyorigin, which resolves locally only
> on very specific systems.
>
> Sendmail: user == userhost.bu.edu, which always resolves locally,
> even when forwarded mail says that you are userbu.edu.
>
> Postfix canonicalizes the address upon receipt of mail, in order
> to simplify the address rewriting mechanism.

I think that this may be a bad programming decision. For large domains
such as our(bu.edu) the aliases database can grow very rapidly. I
understand that coding postfix in such a way would definately cut down on
time, however if postfix is supposed to be a drop in replacement for
sendmail then wouldn't you want this feature.
In the many years of System Administration I have never came across such
an easy mailer to configure. However, I am afraid that if my aliases
database which contains 50 or so aliases must contain aliases in the
following format
alias: real_namereal.domain.com
it seems very unpractical.
I would suggest that this decision be look at one more time and re-coded
so that the database can contain realistic aliases

abuse: root
root: real_namereal.domain.com

Just my $0.02

Christopher T. Beers Systems Analyst Administrator I
Office of Information Technology - Boston University
111 Cummington Street (617)353-8248
Boston, MA 02215 (617)353-6260 fax

>
> Wietse
>

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