Re: Having trouble getting aliases to accept mail

man, 16.05.2005 kl. 16.32 skrev Victor Duchovni:

> > The e-mail address kris.vassallo@berkeley-da.com should return the UID
> > kris, not kris.vassallo. Search on 'mail=%s' and have the (same :)
> > posixAccount UID returned in each case.
> >
> When using First.Last -> uid for local users, it is often desirable
> to implement the expansion in aliases(5) rather than virtual(5), as
> local forwarding (aliases RHS, .forward contents, ...) to F.L will work
> correctly in that case.

Goodness me, I'd never even considered "First.Last -> uid for local
users". It certainly adds strings to one's bow.

> This requires (as documented) support for bare F.L (no domain) lookups,
> which can be coerced in LDAP using %u@domain.tld if all the F.L names
> are in a single domain.

Seems so. Thanks once again for illuminating behind-the-scenes features.
Another thread copied to my "HOWTO Postfix" folder.

--Tonni

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