Re: [Exim] query about verifying aliases

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Author: Chris Thompson
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] query about verifying aliases
Philip Hazel <ph10@???> writes:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Steve Platt wrote:
>
> > We have (historically always had) aliases for each of our users a bit like
> > this :-
> >
> > full.name: username
> > username: username@mailhost
>
> I've been thinking some more about this case.

[...]
>                                   It now seems to me that when an alias 
> generates just one child address, this is a special case. I propose, 
> therefore, to make a change like this:

>
> If aliasfile generates just one address, verification doesn't stop,
> but goes on to verify the new address, and this continues for as long
> as single children are generated.


(with a loop stopper, I hope!)

It occurred to me that administrators might want verification not to
progagate in some cases. But maybe with the proposed scheme they would
be able to do this by using

     full.name: username, :blackhole:


?

Chris Thompson               University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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Phone: +44 1223 334715       United Kingdom.