Quoth Hans Matzen on Wed, Oct 27, 1999:
> 1. I use two alias files one for local to worldusable
> address mapping and one vice versa.
Beautiful.
> 2. in the rewriting section of the configfile i added something
> like:
So, it's not exactly alias files, but rewriting lookup files.
> 3. because my provider checks for world usable Sender header
> and the other discussed reasons i added the following to the smtp
> transport section:
>
> headers_remove = "sender:from:reply-to"
> headers_add = "From: ${lookup{${lc:${local_part:$header_from:}}}\
> lsearch{/aliasfile_intern_to_extern} \
> {$value}fail}\n \
> Sender:${lookup{${lc:${local_part:$header_from:}}}\
> lsearch{/aliasfile_intern_to_extern} \
> {$value} fail}\n \
> Reply-to:${lookup{${lc:${local_part:$header_from:}}}\
> lsearch{/aliasfike_intern_to_extern} \
> {$value} fail}\n"
I think that it's better to use global configuration and rewrite
the appropriate headers with the envelope.
> by the way is it possible to do a reverse lookup
> on aliasfiles ?
No.
> this would save the second file, but if not, it
> doesnt matter one can easily convert one into the other.
Yes. A short awk, sed, or perl script will do it.
Vadik.
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