Re: Having trouble getting aliases to accept mail

From: Tony Earnshaw (no email)
Date: Mon May 16 2005 - 11:26:42 EDT

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    man, 16.05.2005 kl. 16.32 skrev Victor Duchovni:

    > > The e-mail address should return the UID
    > > kris, not kris.vassallo. Search on 'mail=%s' and have the (same :)
    > > posixAccount UID returned in each case.
    > >
    > When using First.Last -> uid for local users, it is often desirable
    > to implement the expansion in aliases(5) rather than virtual(5), as
    > local forwarding (aliases RHS, .forward contents, ...) to F.L will work
    > correctly in that case.

    Goodness me, I'd never even considered "First.Last -> uid for local
    users". It certainly adds strings to one's bow.

    > This requires (as documented) support for bare F.L (no domain) lookups,
    > which can be coerced in LDAP using %u at domain dot tld if all the F.L names
    > are in a single domain.

    Seems so. Thanks once again for illuminating behind-the-scenes features.
    Another thread copied to my "HOWTO Postfix" folder.

    --Tonni

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