Re: [Exim] Email Aliases DB?

On 2000-09-08 at 02:03 +0200, Chris Knipe gifted us with:
> Err, not wanting to be a expert here, but isn't LDAP a protocol used for
> locating people?

LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. It can store quite a lot
more than that. Significantly more. It's often used for associating
data with people; such as, "what's their mailbox and where is it?"

> The Office.sunnyline.co.za domain zone will then automatically be updated
> with what Microsoft calls, WKS Records (Well Known Service), which tells

RFC 1035, "3.4.2. WKS RDATA format", dating from November 1987. It's
not new.

> Hmmm, exactly the kind of attitute I want to see get changed over the next
> few years....

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