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Subject: Re: firtname.lastname handling, and handling unknown recipients
From: Matthias Andree (madt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 19:37:36 CDT

Darren Nickerson <darren.nickersoniworkwell.com> writes:

> Since the machine I'm setting up will only host one domain, it makes
> sense to simply add it to mydestination and setup aliases accordingly,
> and forget about virtual maps for now (I think). I have two questions
> in this context:
>
> 1. what is the best way to handle firstname.lastname -> username
> rewriting for inbound mail? Aliases? Or is a more heavy-handed
> approach like using canonical maps to munge the actual headers
> seen as a more appropriate way of handling this?

Depends on what you're doing with it and what you need it for. Aliases
set up routing only, canonical_maps set up simple rewriting. If you're
forwarding things (I know you do), it depends on what the destination
expects.

> 2. is there a way to duplicate the functionality of the
> "catch-all" feature of a mydomain.com line in virtual map,
> which would send all unknown mail to a given local user? Is the
> luser_relay the best way to do this?

I never thought about that one, I'm not researching this since I'm short
of time ATM. 

-- 
Matthias Andree

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