Hello Dan,
Thursday, May 25, 2000, 1:45:10 AM, you wrote:
DK> So I know that Exim can look things up in a mysql database.
DK> I'm interested in hearing from someone who has successfully
DK> maintained system aliases in a database.
I'm doing this. I set up a simple table 'aliases' which contains two fields
'username' and 'alias'.
The corresponding entry in the configure-file, section directors, is:
mysql_aliases:
driver = aliasfile
search_type = mysql
query = "select alias from aliases \
where username='${quote_mysql:${lc:${local_part}}}'"
file_transport = address_file
pipe_transport = address_pipe
DK> What we want, very specifically, is for each true local
DK> user to be able to be reached with the following pattern
DK> given Joe Smith as the example:
DK> jsmith
DK> joe.smith
DK> joe_smith
DK> joes
I remember a tool for smail 2.5 (long ago :-) named 'nptx'. Which did quite
this - expand a passwd file into an alias-file. Maybe search-engines will
help, I'll take a look at home, might have this lying around somewhere.
--
Jochen Erwied <Jochen.Erwied@???> Phone: +49-2151-7294-24
mbs GmbH, Roemerstr. 15, 47809 Krefeld FAX: +49-2151-7294-50
