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> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 03:59:11PM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > On 2013-11-11 2:30 PM, Viktor Dukhovni
> > <postfix-us...@dukhovni.org> wrote:
> > >It is not entirely unreasonable to expect address validation
> > >to handle 1-to-1 aliasing of @example.org with @example.net.
> >
> > Postfixadmin, an excellent tool for managing userdbs in
> > mysql/postgresql, has had 1-to-1 domain aliasing for a long
> > time, and it works just fine... so, unltil postfix supports
> > this natively, it can still be done now, and if you don't want
> > to use postfixadmin, I'm sure a competent programmer could
> > 'use the source' and implement it their own way...
>
> No programming is necessary; all you need is SQL. Most simply, a
> query which receives input of "u...@example.org" and then does a
> lookup of "u...@example.net".
>
> A well-thought-out SQL schema can automate this. Similarly, LDAP
> offers means of doing this. For those using neither SQL nor LDAP,
> trivial scripting can generate and maintain complete user maps.
>
> As Viktor said, while a domain aliasing feature might be worth
> considering for an eventual Postfix 3.0, it's probably not worth
> implementing here in Postfix 2.x. Maybe a few examples added to
> VIRTUAL_README?
I welcome *SQL and LDAP examples.
As for 'fixing' Postfix recipient address validation, doing a
half-assed job that handles only @domain->@domain and other 1-1
canonical/virtual alias mappings may not be hard, but doing a
complete job would require a redesign.
Wietse
