On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Dr. Rich Artym wrote:
> Now that I've installed 1.70 all over the place and it's working
> perfectly, I've finally found time to sit down and read the docs,
> cover to cover. That's really impressive configurability, Philip!
Thank you.
> However, it would be far more powerful if one could inject a routed
> item not into a local transport but into the director chain, so that
> much more clever processing could be performed -- subdomain-to-suffix
> transformations and new_address come to mind, which would allow much
> tighter control over rewriting destinations than the current global
> rewrite system.
>
> Is there any obvious reason why this sort of thing can't be done?
I don't think so. I will have to think about it. I have put it on my
list of things to think about. Thanks for the idea.
> I don't think that the existing generic self option can deal with this
> requirement because it allows only domains to be rerouted, not addresses
> respecified, so information in the domain part can be lost. I suppose
> the "self" facilities could be extended though, so that something like
> "self = new_address:remap-$domain@localhost" would then be able to
> inject the item into the director chain.
It might even turn out to be easy to cause "self" simply to set a flag
saying "treat this address as local even though it isn't in local_domains".
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