On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:54 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > A mail aliases file serves to provide a centralized location to manage mail > addresses and distribution lists. It is a pretty fundamental feature for an > MTA/MSA. As an example, I develop Linux embedded systems and many of the > daemons I install send e-mail to the local root user by default. Rather than > manage each daemon's configuration file with the administrator's real e-mail > address, I can stick the address in the aliases file and easily mange it from > one place. I can also send to a group of administrators which most of the > daemons do not support. > > Msmtp currently supports aliases via find_alias_for_smtp.sh in the scripts > directory. However, that script uses awk and other external utilities which > are not necessarily installed on a lightweight embedded system. Also, from a > security perspective, I much prefer native support than a script. On my > x86_64 development system, msmtp went from 104256 to 107208 bytes with the > aliases patch, an increase of 2952 bytes. The find_alias_for_smtp.sh script > is 2337 bytes for comparison plus orders of magnitude more for the external > utilities.
You can use a simple script in your daemons. I say msmtp should remain minimal. Perhaps a new tool should be created that uses msmtp, or all these fancy features should be configurable at build-time. -- Felipe Contreras ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ msmtp-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msmtp-users
