On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Robert Gomulka wrote:
> > If mail arrives for "postmaster", it directs "postmaster". The aliasing
> > turns it into "ph10". Then that is directed by itself. It is not an
> > alias, so the aliasfile director declines and passes it on to the next
> > director. Eventually it hits the localuser director, which sends it to a
> > transport.
>
> Well, so I do the same thing in a different way. Instead of eventually
> passing it to localuser director, it hits my first virtual_localuser director
> with "transport" set. When transport is set, original address is passed to
> that transport, exactly like in localuser director. So the final effect is
> the same :) Correct me if I am wrong.
Yes, correct. But why? Why use aliasfile when you have a transport? It
is confusing. (In fact, in Exim 4, things are more clearly separated and
you can't do it this way, precisely to avoid the confusion.)
If you want to set up a director "send this/these addresses to this
transport", then a smartuser director is a much clearer way of
specifying it.
xxx:
driver = smartuser
domains = ....
local_parts = ....
transport = ....
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
