On 2007-12-09 23:42:51 +0100, Juerd Waalboer wrote: > Juerd Waalboer skribis 2007-12-07 1:53 (+0100): > > I'm going to email all the authors, as far as I can find their > > addresses, so they have a chance to respond to my critique. > > Instead of complaining about lack of qmail support, I've decided to > simply recategorize things into less offending "support levels". After > all, many weren't even written with qmail in mind. I'm including them > anyway, because they might still be viable alternatives for some > systems.
Great.
> Qmail's modular design made replacing the SMTP daemon very simple, and because
> development on qmail stopped with version 1.03 in 1993, several replacement
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1998.
> =head3 Level 0
>
> Level 0 solutions are limited to checking specific [EMAIL PROTECTED], without
> support
> for catch-all addresses.
>
> =over 4
>
[...]
> =item aliases plugin for qpsmtpd
>
> Written in Perl, checks against a text file with aliases and expands them.
>
> http://www.hjp.at/projekte/qpsmtpd/aliases/aliases_check.html
>
[...]
> =back
>
> =head3 Level 1
>
> Level 1 solutions are limited to checking [EMAIL PROTECTED] and also provide
> support
> for catch-all domains ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and sometimes catch-all extensions
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), but not specific user extensions
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
The aliases plugin supports catch-all domains and catch-all extensions,
although the separator character is hard-coded to be "+" (like in
sendmail) instead of "-" (as in qmail). That should be fairly easy to
change. User extensions are not supported, but I'm not sure how they are
different from catch-all extensions at the the MTA level - IMHO that's a
matter for the MDA.
(But I am thinking about "user-registered" extensions at the MX: So if I
have a username of "hjp", and I have registered and extension of "foo",
mails to <hjp/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> are accepted but mails to
<hjp/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> are not ("/" here is an arbitrary separator
character - it could be "-", but "-" does occur in personal names, so
I'm reluctant to use that - it should be configurable anyway).)
hp
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