tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote:
At 25/07/03 25/07/03 -0400, Jeff Hedlund wrote:
tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote:At 25/07/03 25/07/03 -0400, Jeff Hedlund wrote:
An alias is another name for that account, therefore it should be processed as if it were that account. It's not an alias-bypass-the-processing-for-that-account. :)
Today it is alias-bypass-the-processing-for-that-account.
The personal interpretation of what is an alias is personal, so I appreciate your opinion, but mine is different.
I have customers with [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] as "real" users, and an alias like [EMAIL PROTECTED] that writes directly in the Maildir of the before said "real" users.
So if user name1 wants to forward his mail to a wireless device, he won't get any sales@ mail, which is inconcistent.
If they needed that, they would use a forward.
How would they use a forward? You can't create a forward named name1 without deleting the name1 account.
Aliases should follow the same rules as the end account, they are _aliases_ -- different names for the same account(s).
Again, this is your opinion. And you cannot make an opinion a forced choice in a project wide as vpopmail/qmailadmin.
I don't see it as my opinion (IMO :). I've never heard of an e-mail system where creating an alias that would bypass normal processing. People coming from other email systems would be extremely confused if this were the case. Or people just starting out with qmail would be confused.
What would be more appropriate in this situation is to create a mailing list called sales@ that is closed to subscription and anyone can post to. Subscribe name1, name2, etc to that list. They will receive all mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow, such complication for a so simple situation!
It's no more complicated than an alias! Just create a new mailing list that is closed subscription and subcribe the people that should be on the distribution list (it can all be done via qmailadmin)
Jeff --
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