[sork] Aliases and Vacation

[Alan W. Rateliff, II]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sork-bounces at lists.horde.org 
> [mailto:sork-bounces at lists.horde.org] On Behalf Of Eric Rostetter
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:35 PM
> To: sork at lists.horde.org
> Subject: Re: [sork] Aliases and Vacation

> > Vacation can obtain aliases from
> > - /etc/aliases
> > - or ldap, database...
> > - or from the .forward file
> > and fill the field.
> 
> Most common are from a file (/etc/aliases) or from an sql database,
> though the others are also possible...  The first job is to create a 
> simple hook (that perhaps, just as proof of concept, provides a static
> string for the value.  Then that could be expanded as needed 
> for actual
> values from sql, ldap, files, etc.

Another place to look is /etc/virtuser (I think that's it, I call mine
"virtualmail".)  You can see entries like this:

address1 at rateliff.us		user
address2 at rateliff.net		user
lists at rateliff.net		user
address3 at snorklesex.com		user

Four different email addresses, one local destination.  The user hook I
wrote for my system accesses the dbm databses directly (resolves an email
address to a local username.)  I don't use MySQL for my Sendmail setup, and
there isn't a qay to retreive information from dbm with queries, so to parse
this would require either a search through the db or an array.

Just a thought.

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