Hi, our admin tool for dbmail always tries to find out if an e-mail address entered in "deliver_to" for an alias is a local dbmail user, and then replaces the e-mail with the user_idnr.
Example: User enters: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then our tools looks up "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", and if it's user #777, it inserts into dbmail_aliases: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> 777 Now I'd like to know if this is good behaviour, or if I should preferrably enter [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of 777. I ask this because I just found a race condition: When a user goes on holidays, he wants to have all his business e-mail at his home account. Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wants his e-mails @work and @home: dbmail_aliases: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] This makes all e-mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] appear on the dbmail user "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", as well as a forward on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Simple. BUT if now he has an alias [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] this was already replaced with [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> 777 and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] would only go to local user 777 and not the [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail, and this is not easy to find. So could I say that always using the e-mail address instead of the user_idnr is recommended? Or is there any good reason to enter the user_idnr in deliver_to? mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc ----- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0676/846 914 666 .network.your.ideas. // PGP Key: "curl -s http://zmi.at/zmi.asc | gpg --import" // Fingerprint: AC19 F9D5 36ED CD8A EF38 500E CE14 91F7 1C12 09B4 // Keyserver: www.keyserver.net Key-ID: 1C1209B4
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