[244] in Hesiod
Re: hesiod and email?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Thu Aug 25 13:14:46 1994
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 94 13:11:18 EDT
From: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: "Derrick J. Brashear" <db74+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: hesiod@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Derrick J. Brashear's message of Wed, 24 Aug 1994 14:06:43 -0400 (EDT),
<EiKsknu00bkI80t6lt@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 14:06:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Derrick J. Brashear" <db74+@andrew.cmu.edu>
How do various sites handle mail forwarding using Hesiod? I don't
remember seeing this addressed anywhere, and I'm getting ready to set
things up, so I'm trying to find a reasonable way to forward mail to
user@DOM.AIN to specific machines for specific people...
At MIT, we don't use Hesiod for this purpose. After all, this
information is needed in one or a few places (just at the central
mailhubs). The main strength of Hesiod is to be able to distribute
information so that any workstation can get that information, quickly
and efficiently --- and that's not needed for this application.
For mail forwarding, the most important thing is putting together a good
system so that users can update their own mail forwarding, and possibly
create and edit their own mailing lists, if that's allowed by site
policy. So for that we use Moira, which is a client/server database
application which uses Kerberos for its security. This allows users
(once they've authenticating using Kerberos) to change their mail
forwarding, and edit any mailing lists which they own or for which they
are on the access control lists. Then once a night, the mailhubs are
updated with the information from the Moira database.
- Ted
