From: Ronald F. Guilmette (rfgmonkeys.com)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2006 - 17:05:26 CST

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In message <20061201214119.C3D17BC0A1spike.porcupine.org>, Wietse wrote:

>> For example, here at monkeys.com, I have both "root" and "postmaster"
>> aliased to the local (actual) user account called "admin".
>
>It's actually a lot worse than that. Aliases can expand to multiple
>recipients. Whose policy would you use?
>
>And if that is not bad enough, some aliases can expand to shell
>commands or file pathnames...

Well, yea, you've definitely got me there. You've got a good point,
or should I say "points".

I'd like to be able to call the points that you have just made a
"fly in the ointment", but I have to confess that they are more
like an elephant in the ointment.

So I'll hereby retract my Policy Server Protocol enhancement request (#2)
and instead just ask if you might like to suggest any actually workable
solution to the problem that I posed. Given that I'd like incoming
mail that's sent to either postmastermonkeys.com or rootmonkeys.com
processed (policy-wise) in a manner to be determined by the local user
account called "admin", is there any relatively clean way to accomplish
this, i.e. via an external policy server?

Should I just go ahead and build a policy server that will perform its own
independent recipient address rewriting?

Regards,
rfg

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