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,
Email: cet1@??? New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.
