Re: check recipient maps and canonical domain aliases

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Victor Duchovni wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:52:00AM -0600, Shapor Naghibzadeh wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the tip Wietse, but I already know how to add users for every
> > aliased domain. I was looking for a way to not have to do this. In my
> > opinion it is very messy and hard to maintain. Multiple entries to
> > create/delete when adding or removing users and aliases. This would end
> > up being a big pain down the road.
>
> You only have to write the code once. Don't do this manually, automate it,
> add users transactionally into all relevant domains.
>
> > Also, my configuration is in mysql, so this would mean parsing the
> > database and growing it significantly.
>
> Disk space is cheap.
>
> > Are there plans to fix the kludges in the smtpd recipient check code?
> >
>
> Your choice of words is unfortunate. The recipient validation code may
> at some point be changed to run post-canonicalization, but a change of
> this magnitude will likely not happen in Postfix 2.2 (or any 2.X for
> that matter), this would be a major number revision.

Thats the information I was looking for. Since there are no immediate
plans for these changes, or patches which hack the code to make this work,
I will just go ahead making database changes. However, the choice of
words wasn't mine at all, they were the choice of whoever put the comments
in the source. ;)

Kind Regards,
Shapor