[900] in Moira
pobox entry screening
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hoffmann@MIT.EDU)
Tue Jun 13 15:31:10 1995
From: hoffmann@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 95 15:30:44 -0400
To: bug-moira@MIT.EDU
Cc: postmaster@MIT.EDU
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.
-Ron
