From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 11:06:06 EDT
Thomas -Balu- Walter:
> + Wietse Venema <> [01.08.02 15:45]:
> > 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 biggest problem is the naming ;) - I often confuse virtual MDA with
> virtual table while reading things and stuff...
>
> > 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 = $virtual_mailbox_maps
>
> I was going to try exactly this, since most users on my box are to be
> transported by virtual and I'd like to avoid the need to add every
> domain to the transport map.
>
> I was thinking of trying
> local_transport = virtual
>
> and adding transport-map entries
> localhost local:
> localhost.$mydomain local:
> $myhostname local:
>
> (and some special hosts :)
>
> Would that be enough, or is "mydestination = $virtual_mailbox_maps"
> needed? It should not do any bad, since virtual transport always looks
> up the complete address in the table, so there should not be any
> problems with equal local part users (user at domain1 and user at domain2
> are the same if local_transport = local and both domains are listed in
> $mydestination, correct? Short would be "sendmail style"?)
I suppose all this works, more or less due to historical accident.
It would be nice if Postfix could be cleaned up a bit.
Right now, the design is unbalanced because local existed long
before virtual came around. Victor Duchovni had some ideas.
Wietse
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