[imp] identities

[Chris H.]

Quoting Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk>:

>> Zitat von "Chris H." <fbsd at 1command.com>:
>> >Am I missing something here? If using sendmail on a NIX box, you can
>> >assign aliases for any individual you wish. I have found that IMP
>> >(with an IMAP server) correctly expands the available aliases for
>> >the user. Thereby only permitting the choice of*valid* aliases for
>> >for the sender.
>> >Is this not your desired goal?
>
> On 07.05.06 11:43, lst_hoe01 at kwsoft.de wrote:
>> What do you mean by expand the available aliases in IMP? As far as i
>> known the choice is to let the user set his/her e-Mail address per
>> identity or not by simply typing it in. What we want to do is to let
>> the users choose only from the aliases defined for his/her account in
>> the database.
>> What settings do you use and is this maybe a feature of IMP 4.1.x??
>
> I think this is a mistake. afaik the IMAP protocol doesn't know anything
> about addresses (aliases) for current (any) user... note that IMAP is
> different from SMTP and has nothing to do with it (although it's used for
> manipulating with something SMTP is being used to transfer).
>
> Although there are libc functions for expanding aliases, most of MTAs use
> own functions for aliases, even usernames.
>
> Our company is the one that would like to have system for mnaging users'
> addresses - we use SQL (generally, non-system) database to store users and
> addresses - in our database having one username does not eve guarantee
> having the same string for address.
>
> With IMP this makes problems, because currently it gives username as
> default address, which sometimes doesn't exist, sometimes even belongs to
> other user.
>
> So, we would also like to have mechanism for choosing valid outgoing
> addresses.

Acknoledged. Please see my recent reply which directly addresses this
situation.

--Chris H.

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