[1304] in Moira
Re: pobox entry screening
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Jan 6 17:46:15 2000
Message-Id: <200001062246.RAA88596@deliverator.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: hoffmann@MIT.EDU
cc: bug-moira@MIT.EDU, postmaster@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: [900] in moira
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 17:46:09 -0500
> It is apparently possible for a user to set his/her mail
> forwarding to a random host and specify it as a PO server
> to Moira.
>
> This results in hesiod info for that user's pobox entry
> but the program which generates the alias entry for the
> mailhubs fails to output anything for that user, resulting
> in a "user unknown" return for attempts to send anything
> to that username.
>
> I think that either the Moira client should not permit
> a user to set the pobox to a non-defined post office
> (except as an SMTP string entry) or the program which
> generates the alias file should be prepared to output
> the information for that user regardless of what host
> was specified as the PO server.
Just going through some old mail and noticed this...
I don't know when it happened (possibly when moira was upgraded to a
sun?), but recent test show that in the above situation a valid entry
is inserted in the aliases file for the user. This is, of course,
still completely unsupported.
Jonathon
