[267] in Hesiod
Re: hesiod and mail aliases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randall S. Winchester)
Mon May 22 15:12:24 1995
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 15:09:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Randall S. Winchester" <rsw@Glue.umd.edu>
To: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@cs.colorado.edu>
Cc: hesiod@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199505221651.KAA14567@clytemnestra.cs.colorado.edu>
On Mon, 22 May 1995, Todd C. Miller wrote:
>
> This weekend I added support to sendmail 8.6.12 for hesiod as a
> generic map type. This allows one to use hesiod in place of nis,
> ndbm, hash, or btree. I intend to use this primarily for mail aliases
> and was wondering if other people are doing the same. If so, what
> are you using for the hesiod "type". I thought of overloading the pobox
> type but that seems fraught with possible problems. Just using "alias"
> seems reasonable, but it may be too generic...
> Once I've tested my changes some more, I'll send them in to Eric.
>
> - todd
I do the same thing. I turn it on in sendmail.cf with "OAhes:aliases".
However you can also do things like;
OAhes:aliases, aliases.forward, aliases.system, aliases.majordomo
If you have some "zones" you update more frequently then others.
I have been running with this since sendmail_8.6.4.
Randall
