> Why didn't you just say "How can I disable extension addresses? They
> make me nervous." instead of trumping up problem with them? You made a
> general complaint, then gave a specific example. Of *course* the
> responses addressed the example.
Sorry, I'm still fumbling around trying to get a grip on this. I have to
feel insanely confortable before I move my userbase over to this new
server using qmail. The old one uses sendmail (big suprise). I'm also the
kind of guy that keeps the bat book on top of the toliet for regular
study.
> Personally, I think you're a control freak and you should either relax
> or switch to a more fascist MTA. There's probably a way to disable
> extension addresses in qmail--perhaps diddling with conf-break or via
> qmail-users, though.
I can live with that. The main reasons I'm being pulled in the qmail
direction are Maildir and the performance hype. I have removed qmail
completely and installed sendmail with procmail to deliver to home
directories, but then bit the bullet and put qmail back on.
> What is it about extension addresses that bothers you?
Its probably not fully understanding what they do yet. I also am
responsible for teaching a tech crew how to get around this once I move it
over and when a call comes in where mail is disappearing, they can't do a
sendmail -v and some of the traditional processes so I would like to keep
some very basic rules like all aliases are in /etc/aliases, users can't
make up variations of their username and have them work as email
addresses, etc....Maybe its facist, makes my life easier in the long haul
though is all. I was almost sure I saw someone post something about a
patch that required anyone that made a working .qmail file to be in a
control/staff file, but a search of the archives hasn't turned up the
message.
andy
