[freeside] svc_acct_sm - Domain mail aliases

[ivan]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:54:02PM +0100, Shez wrote:
> 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

svc_domain

> 2) a list of local targets onto which the virtual targets would be mapped

There shouldn't be any such thing as "local".

> 3) a list of mappings of local targets onto ultimate destinations

There's no need for two mappings: a single mapping in svc_acct should
suffice.

> 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?

Sounds right.

-- 
meow
_ivan