2010/12/17 Norman Maurer <nor...@apache.org>: > 2010/12/16 Stefano Bagnara <apa...@bago.org>: >> 2010/12/16 Eric Charles <e...@apache.org>: >>> Hi, >>> We also need to cover James used as simple MTA/mail-relay/honeypot without >>> any users defined (for example, in an internal network when processing mails >>> for virus/spam detection,...). >>> In this case, we could use in this case the "localhost" domain. >>> >>> I'm also in favor of having only the virtualhosting enabled. I guess this >>> would simply lead to remove this notion from code/conf. >> >> In anyone needs the "old" behaviour then he just need to add a rewrite >> for the recipient (.*)@(.*) => $...@defaultdomain as the first mailet. I >> think everything is easier to understand this way (not sure if we >> already provide a good way to do this rewrite easily, but we can >> create a simple mailet if we don't already have something usable). >> >> Stefano > > I thought a bit about it and I think the rewrite stuff would work once > the email is spooled. But there is still the problem with > authentication (SMTP/POP3/IMAP). The user will need to login with > u...@domain as username. Not really a problem but maybe confuse > people, but I guess if we document it it would be enough... > > Bye > Norman >
After thinking a bit more about it I think Stefano is right.. we should just use virtualhosting by default. Which also will force users contain a domain part in the username. It's prolly the thing most of users look for anyway and for all others we can add a Mailet which do the mapping. Bye, Norman --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org
