Re: Virtual delivery agent

From: Joshua E Warchol (no email)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 09:55:15 EDT


> Question.
>
> What is making it hard to use the virtual delivery agent, apart
> from the inability to execute commands, which is unlikely to ever
> happen?
>
> The virtual delivery agent was added several years after the initial
> design, and it does not fit perfectly. I would like to make it a
> realistic option to do this:
>
> local_transport = virtual
> mydestination = $virtual_mailbox_maps
>
> or something morally equivalent.

Right now I've got local_transport set to virtual, and I have a seperate
map for mydestination, which works "ok". The filter I need to use isn't
perfect because it returns all the users for a domain, which takes longer.
I fault myschema for this, not postfix.

The problem I was referring to was this. My users want to be able to setup
"forwarders" within their domain that do not have a mailbox, just forwarding
off to another host (AOL, whatever). For this I need to use a virtual_maps
map. There is probably some overlap between what I use virtual(5) for and what
I use virtual(8) for.

virtual(8) is a fantastic part of postfix. I can't imagine doing this
with real users.

Running commands is not an requirement at all, just being able to bounce
messages off to other addresses.

-- 
Joshua Warchol
UNIX Systems Administrator
DSL.net
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