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Re: mailForwarding, which processes are using virtual_alias_maps

From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 09:08:47 CDT


Pascal Gienger:
> Wietse Venema <wietseporcupine.org> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Virtual alias expansion is done in the cleanup server as mail is
> > written to queue file.
>
> How does cleanup get its lookup data? smtpd asks LDAP (if LDAP is defined
> as lookup method for a table) and cleanup also uses the result passed
> somehow? When using hash-tables I have been able to solve the double
> lookup-problem with my second cleanup and "-o cleanup_service_name=....."
> for smtpd.
>
> This seems to break with LDAP.

As I wrote, the details are likely to change, therefore I will not
answer the question.

Use two Postfix instances if you must not do virtual alias expansion
before or after a content filter.

        Wietse