From: Wietse Venema (no email)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 11:09:33 EST
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> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
>
> > I thought I'd share my solution, that's all. It gives me a fantastic
> > tool in addition, for LDAP-based Postfix support.
> >
>
> You will understand Postfix better when you start thinking in terms of the
> higher level Postfix features, such as canonical rewriting, virtual
> rewriting, alias expansion, transport lookup, ... rather than LDAP, MySQL,
> PGSQL, Berkeley DB, ... which are used as table drivers in the
> implementation of the above features.
>
> There are no LDAP based Postfix features, there are only table based
> features, and LDAP is but one of the possible tables.
Children, children. Play nice, please.
Meanwhile I'll do another pass over the documentation. The challenge
is to make each document readable by itself. Most people don't get
it when they have to read a totally abstract document about address
classes or LDA integration mechanisms if they then have to take
those abstract descriptions and substitute the specific maildrop
or cyrus details into them.
That's like giving the EBNF grammar for a protocol without ever
showing a complete conversation. I tend to find such descriptions
difficult to follow myself.
Wietse
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