Okay, before someone starts getting hysterical over nothing let me give
my R$ 0.03 (two cents in Brazilian currency):
I think what bothers Andy is overlapping -- the possibility of creating
an user that stops a previously existing valid alias dead on its tracks,
or creating an perfectly legal alias that just doesn't work. Yes, there
IS the potential to support nightmares with qmail's alias system. Add
virtual domains to the mix and it just gets worse.
Administratively enforcing a few rules would help:
1) Never ever EVER let ANYBODY create a valid username containing
dashes. Dashes are for alias. The almighty Lord has said so.
2) Tweak user creation process so usernames don't clash with anything in
~alias (like I did on the ISP I work at. People are forbidden to create
users with anything except the Web interface).
That's pretty liberal still. Moses came down the mountain with ten! ;)
Dave Sill wrote:
>
> Andy Walden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I never argued that this didn't work, tried it, and it did. That wasn't
> >the question either. Its more of a control issue that it makes me nervous
> >a user can create addition email addresses for themselves.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> What is it about extension addresses that bothers you?
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