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From: brad@his.com (Brad Knowles)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Aliasing for multiple domains
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 21:19:20 -0500
Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470
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In article <3or5op$cj2@news1.channel1.com>,
mcgovern@mcgovern.channel1.com (Brian J. McGovern) wrote:
> I am running a FreeBSD 2.0 machine that has a Cw line for several domains
> in it. Lately, several of my users have requested special user ids for
> their own purposes, such as support, techsup, etc.
>
> So, what I'd like to do is be able to keep these in an alias file and have
> something like this work:
>
> support@domain1.com: userx
> support@domain2.com: usery
> support@domain3.com: userz
Basically, you're asking for non-local aliasing (the user in question
doesn't externally appear to be local to your machine). Folks have posted
notes to comp.mail.sendmail recently about how this can be hacked together
with current versions of sendmail V8 under certain circumstances, and there
was also mention (a while further back) of a port of the IDA non-local
mailertable code to current versions of V8 by a third-party.
I know that this is on the list of things to have in 8.7 (most current
available today is 8.6.12, so far as I know), but I haven't heard any
unofficially official schedule for when 8.7 will go into public beta, I
only know that there's a lot of pressure on Eric Allman to get it out the
door as soon as possible, because a lot of desirable features are slated to
appear in it.
The fact that Eric has spent a fair amount of time working on 8.6.x to fix
some bugs (when 8.6.9 was supposed to be the last version of 8.6 prior to
version 8.7 being made available) hasn't helped the schedule for 8.7.
The only other currently available alternative that I am aware of is to use
IDA sendmail (and get the non-local mailertable code) if you can't get or
make use of either of the two previously mentioned options.
If anyone has any more current information on this subject, I'd appreciate
hearing about it (go ahead and post the info publicly, unless you've got
reason to keep it private and want to continue to keep it private).
--
Brad Knowles brad@his.com
comp.mail.sendmail FAQ Coordinator brad.knowles@his.com
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