Re: owner-* magic for virtual aliases

On 26 January 2004, <Victor.Duchovni@morganstanley.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Liviu Daia wrote:
>
> > > rcpt0 -> rcpt1 -> rcpt2 -> rcpt3
> > >
> > > Suppose rcpt0 and rcpt2 have owner records, which should be used?
> >
> > The sender should be first rewritten for rcpt0, then for rcpt2.
> > That is, the last owner-* takes precedence, but this should be
> > combined with the above split into multiple queue files. This makes
> > sense as long as owner-* is supposed to catch errors. But you're
> > right, this is tricky.
> >
>
> You best bet is to alias the recipients in question into the local
> mailer, then use alias expansion with "owner-alias". This takes care
> of the envelope splitting.
>
> virtual:
> list@virtual.tld list-virtual.tld@localhost
>
> aliases:
> list-virtual.tld: ...
> owner-list-virtual.tld: ...

I know, this is the approach I'm currently using. I'm trying to get
rid of it.

Regards,

Liviu Daia

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Dr. Liviu Daia
Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy