[Pkg-exim4-users] Re: Second try to define "virtual"

[Marc Haber]

Hi Tony,

nice to hear from you.

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:56:08PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> I have a
> suggestion for a more axiomatic/orthogonal approach.
> 
> * Does the domain use the traditional system aliases file, or its own
> aliases file, or a shared (fully-qualified) aliases file, or none?
> 
> * Is email to this domain delivered locally? If so, are unix user names
> valid local parts at this domain? Or is the message store independent
> of unix accounts?
> 
> * If multiple domains point to the same message store, are local parts at
> the various domains the same across all the domains or different?  Does
> the same local part at different domains refer to different mailboxes?
> 
> * Is the domain supposed to be entirely equivalent to some other domain?

I really really like that idea, but it comes with the price that the
configuration recipies that might be delivered with this approach
depart rather radically from what the community is used to. Having
corresponding experiences with the configuration itself, I'd rather
stay more along the lines of the common approaches.

Would it be acceptable to (a) give "new" definition for the common
"virtual foo" stuff as we already have and (b) additionally give a
second section of explanations and examples following your new scheme?

Or do you think this would add to general confusion?

Greetings
Marc

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