Re: [courier-users] hosteddomains and aliases capitalization

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Gordon Messmer writes:
>
>> It's come up before that "aliased" hosteddomains sometimes don't do
>> what users expect them to. The man page for "makehosteddomains"
>> indicates that if "mail.domain.com" is aliased to "domain.com", then
>> an address of the form <address@mail.domain.com> will be rewritten as
>> <address@domain.com> and delivered to the local mailbox for that
>> name. The consequence seems to be that if <address@domain.com> is an
>> alias, delivery fails.
>
> Define an alias for address@mail.domain.com
>
Sam and Gordon,

I think it is understood that based on the current code in courier that,
even if there is an aliased domain set in hosteddomains, that you must
again explicitly state this aliasing in the aliases file for addresses
that are not mailboxes.

The need to define the domain alias twice seems redundant and is a bit
confusing:

1) hosteddomains sample

domainprimary.com
domainalias.com<tab>domainprimary.com

2) aliases sample would need:

joe@domainprimary.com: someone@gmail.com
joe@domainalias.com: someone@gmail.com

It would be much simpler from an administration perspective for the
aliases file to follow the global setting for domain aliasing as set in
hostedomains, thus only needing this in the aliases file:

joe@domainprimary.com: someone@gmail.com

....

This same need for redundancy seems to also be necessary in regards to
the global setting to be case-insensitivivty.

For mailboxes, they are case-insensitive, but for aliases... it seems to
be necessary to include options for likely capitalization nuances. For
instance some strange person my decide to send email to
MrJoe@domain.com. If mrjoe@domain.com is a mailbox it gets delivered
fine, but if it is an alias you have to define both of these in the
aliases file for delivery to succeed for the different capitalization
nuances:

mrjoe@domain.com
MrJoe@domain.com

....

Now, what I truly wish is that I was educated in programming enough at
this point to figure out how to update the code to do this... or whether
it was just meant to run this way for some reason I'm not understanding
and thus needing to deal with this redundancy is necessary.

Thanks,

Charles



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