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- From: peter@merlin.acadiau.ca (Peter Steele)
- Subject: Re: IDA-sendmail takes forever to build aliases
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- Organization: Acadia University
- References: <rhoward.714923704@matd> <rhoward.714944884@matd> <1992Aug29.092645.2237@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:05:20 GMT
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- >Duh, so that's why it takes forever on our machine (approx. 300 users)?
- >But whereas I can see how I can speed it up on the above example, cutting off
- >the domains on our configuration doesn't seem to work. We do:
-
- >firstname.lastname@domain: <>account@somesystem.domain
-
- >in the xaliases file. Somehow I didn't get
-
- >firstname.lastname: <>account@somesystem
-
- >to work. Does that mean I'm stuck with the hundreds of DNS requests?
-
- That didn't work for me either. I have to say:
-
- firstname.lastname: <>account@somesystem.domain
-
- However, that didn't give the effect I wanted either. What I
- wanted to see was users' return addresses remapped as
-
- firstname.lastname@domain
-
- However, the xalias line above produced this:
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- firstname.lastname@somesystem.acadiau.ca
-
- which is not what I wanted. I tried the various HIDDEN options
- but they have the side effect of hiding the hostnames in cases
- where I didn't want them hidden.
-
- In the end I had to use
-
- firstname.lastname@domain: <>account@somesystem.domain
-
- as the basis of my alias database. I have to include other
- stuff as well to make everything work just right....
- --
- Peter Steele Unix Services Manager peter.steele@acadiau.ca
- Acadia Univ., Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P 1X0 902-542-2201 Fax: 902-542-4364
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