Re: UserDB a.k.a. Sender rewriting implemented

[Eugene Crosser <crosser@online.ru>]

Sorry, I don't quite understand.  Is this like fqdnaliases but working
on envelope from rather than envelope to address (and content from
for mailname)?  If yes, why so strange syntax?

Eugene

On 31-Mar-00 at 18:44, Matti Aarnio (mea@nic.funet.fi) wrote:
>   After several users asked for it, and I had personal needs for it,
>   I spent couple evenings at the issue earlier this week, and now
>   there is Sendmail 8 -like  UserDB  facility, although it is sort
>   of "on all the time".
> 
> #
> #  UserDB per sendmail's approach
> #
> #  This can be used to map local names into outgoing fqdn addresses.
> #  There are white-space separated key and data fields.
> #
> #  Sendmail implements things called: ":maildrop" which is alike
> #  standard aliases. (Except works at header rewriting also?)
> #  Sendmail implements also ":mailname" things which map VISIBLE HEADER
> #  addresses to other.
> #
> #     root:maildrop    sysadmin@here.dom,bill@three.dom
> #     user:mailname  ->  user.name@here.dom
> #     user.name:maildrop -> user
> #
> #  Sendmail has also mapping key  ":default:mailname"  however ZMailer
> #  doesn't support that one.
> #
> #  CURRENTLY ZMAILER SUPPORTS ONLY "****:mailname" MAPPINGS
> #  (2000-March-28)  Use standard aliases for maildrop mapping.
> #
> #  As the sendmail method is somewhat limited, the userdb mapping as
> #  present at   crossbar.cf / internet()  function implements:
> #     user:mailname                     ->  user.name@here.dom
> #     user@some.dom:mailname            ->  user.name@other1.dom
> #     <anylocalpart>@some.dom:mailname  ->  <anylocalpart>@other2.dom
> #  mapping for allowing masking single users..
> #
> 
> #user:mailname          user.name@here.dom
> #user@some.dom:mailname     user.name@other1.dom
> #@some.dom:mailname     @other2.dom
> 
> 
> -- 
> /Matti Aarnio     <mea@nic.funet.fi>