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[Anders Lund <address@concealed>]

I have a comment myself. ;-)

If the alias_manager.pl script was changed to edit my
"virtual_sympa_regexp" in addition to my "sympa_aliases", to add one new
line for each new list one of my virtual robots create, it would be better.

Example:

When I create list1@domain2 the alias manager would create the aliases
in "sympa_aliases" and in addition insert a line in
"virtual_sympa_regexp" which says:

/^list1@domain2$/ domain2-list1

Mail to "bogusname@domain2" would then be rejected with SMTP 550 code,
instead of matching the generic /^(.*)@domain2$/ regexp I have today.

I looks like this method was used in early days:

http://www.sympa.org/fom-serve/cache/219.html

After an update of "virtual_sympa_regexp" the alias manager would have
to do a reload of Postfix I think...

- Anders


Anders Lund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem I would like to have comments on if anyone else has a
> good solution:
> 
> Running Posfix 2.1.5 (Debian Stable 3.1) and Sympa 5.1.2 compiled from
> source. I have set up Postfix to handle domain1 as my primary domain
> ("mydestination" in Postfix) and other domains (domain2 and domain3) as
> "virtual_alias_domains" in Postfix.
> 
> I have
> 
> alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
>         hash:/etc/sympa/sympa_aliases
> alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
>         hash:/etc/sympa/sympa_aliases
> 
> listed in Postfix, and Sympa can update "sympa_aliases" using the
> "alias_manager.pl" script.
> 
> I also have
> 
> virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/maps/virtual_alias,
>         regexp:/etc/postfix/maps/virtual_sympa_regexp
> 
> and added
> 
> /^(.*)@domain2$/ domain2-$1
> /^(.*)@domain3$/ domain3-$1
> 
> to "virtual_sympa_regexp".
> 
> Now my problem: When sending something to "bogusname@domain2" I hit the
> regexp in "virtual_sympa_regexp" and the mail is accepted by Postfix
> even though "bogusname" is not defined in my "sympa_aliases" file. Later
> I get a "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" from Postfix telling me that
> 
> <domain2-bogusname@domain1>: unknown user: "domain2-bogusname"
> 
> What I would really like is to get directly a SMTP 550 error message
> when trying to do a RCPT TO to this address. Like I do when I try to
> send to "bogusname@domain1":
> 
> 550 <bogusname@domain1>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in
> local recipient table
> 
> Anyone with a good solution to this problem? Perhaps it is more of a
> Postfix configuration problem and not directly related to Sympa, but it
> would be nice to have comments...

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