[freeside] svc_acct_sm - Domain mail aliases

[Shez]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote:
>> We are interested in storing this information in a database to make clustering
>> and replication of the mail services easier.  Since freeside already lets you
>> specify that mail for an alias can be delivered to a local user (effectively a
>> pop-3 box in our sites context) it seemed a small extension to allow this to
>> extend to forwarding mail.  Not necessaraly a natural extension though...
>
>*nod* That's convincing enough that I could see you'd want to track it,
>though you'd probably want to export to qmail+fastforward
><http://cr.yp.to/fastforward.html> or sendmail /etc/aliases rather than
>.qmail and .forward files.
>
>But it would fit fine in the proposed database schema :).

In an off list discussion with Jeff Finucane (jeff at cmh.net) we were talking
about a a one-to-many with a POP box, bounce, or forward on the right hand side.

Jeff's thoughts were that to work with any reasonable MTA you would want:
1) a list of domains
2) a list of local targets onto which the virtual targets would be mapped
3) a list of mappings of local targets onto ultimate destinations

The first two are already provided by freeside, and I guess you mean that if
you put the info about pop vs bounce vs forward into svc_acct (as well as
a domain) then that would fill the third as well.

Is this correct?

Seeya
Shez

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