Re: [exim] Recursive Lookups

Tony Finch wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Timothy Arnold wrote:
>
>>The issue is when customers want local .forward/.aliases files. I would
>>have to resolve the address to a local user so it can read the files, if I
>>am not mistaken?
>
>
> Not if you require that your users make the files globally readable.

Is that easily done? And might we be creating a needless
security hole?

STM that 'group' privs that Exim should have would be enough..

>
> I would also suggest that you have a separate mapping from email domains
> to the location of their aliases files, which is independent from
> resolving whole email addresses to local users. It sounds like you have
> got the two mixed up.
>
> Tony.

Perhaps a DB-driven approach (cdb OR SQL) would be simpler to
manage overall after all?

Bill