> On Mar 14, 2017, at 12:05 AM, Samuel Williams
> wrote:
>
> Viktor, do you mind clarifying why you don't think it's sensible
> behaviour? Like, what specifically is wrong with this approach?
> Perhaps I'm missing something important.
Poor orthogonality in tool design. The postmap(1) and post
Viktor, do you mind clarifying why you don't think it's sensible
behaviour? Like, what specifically is wrong with this approach?
Perhaps I'm missing something important.
I don't mind adding a script to merge aliases, and it may be what I
end up doing. I see both pros and cons with this approach. H
On 3/13/2017 6:34 PM, Samuel Williams wrote:
> I don't really want to add a full blown MySQL, PgSQL or LDAP daemon
> for just 2-3 user accounts. It's not a primary function of the server
> and adds a lot of overhead/surface area.
Consider using SQLite for this. No daemon, minimal config, yet real
> On Mar 13, 2017, at 7:56 PM, Samuel Williams
> wrote:
>
> Just wondering, looking at the source code, it should be possible to
> create a merge mode for postalias. Would you accept a PR for this? So
> the use case would be something like
>
> cat /etc/postfix/aliases /etc/postfix/aliases.d/*
Just wondering, looking at the source code, it should be possible to
create a merge mode for postalias. Would you accept a PR for this? So
the use case would be something like
cat /etc/postfix/aliases /etc/postfix/aliases.d/* | postalias -Mi aliases
And it would merge together records if there we
Thanks Viktor.
> Automatic combination of multiple results into a single comma-separated
outcome is a feature of the LDAP, MySQL and PgSQL table drivers.
> Put your aliases into a database, and you'll get the automatic merging
of multiple lookup results.
It's possible to achieve what I want just
> On Mar 13, 2017, at 7:04 PM, Samuel Williams
> wrote:
>
> I have 0 or more of these user packages, and I want to, some how,
> merge all these aliases together. So, if another user has `root:
> dole`, the final entry would be equivalent to `root: bob, dole`.
Automatic combination of multiple
I don't know the best way to achieve this.
I have some "user" packages which install various users on a linux
system. I want the setup to be entirely automated, and as part of this
I want to set up some mail aliases for each user, and add their alias
to the root alias. Essentially, the following r
