Re: [exim] [exim-dev] [PATCH] Implement redirect

On 6/29/06 8:55 AM, "Philip Hazel" <ph10@???> wrote:

> Final thought: how many users are going to appreciate the difference
> between .forward and .redirect, or were you thinking that sysadmins
> would create those files?

The user *should* do the work, whether the instructions are in the
(proposed) ~/.redirect file or somewhere else (ours would be in MySQL, most
likely). A good many users escape spam by
Start new address
Forward old address for a while until most correspondents have caught on
Disable old address.
Use new address much more carefully than before.

For that pattern, of course, redirect is totally wrong.

In our AccountManager, we would have to make the difference between
forwarding and redirecting (in this sense) just as clear as the admin of a
traditional system would.

(99.9+% of our users have never been able to write into their home
directories--some of the early ones--including me--were, in 1993 and early
1994, but that was when the connection to the world was a wired long
distance connection on one of the company's 6 14.4 modems).

--John