Re: Configuring to allow aliases in 'Firstname.Lastname' form

[Craig Metz <cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu>]

In message <93Jan1.125753eet.10298-2@utu.fi> you write:
>> 	Can anyone provide for me configuration files for Zmailer
>> (or explain what needs to be changed - this may end up the better
>> option) such that the router will interpret names in 'Firstname.
>> Lastname' form (ie, 'Craig.Metz@thor.tjhsst.edu') correctly by 
>> first translating the name using the aliases database and then
>> trying to deliver the message instead of trying to resolve names
>> of this form as a newsgroup destination. We do not have a news
>> system locally, so we can do without the latter resolution 
>> technique if we must, but it would be nice to have that capability
>> around in case we need it in the future. Thanks in advance to 
>> anyone who can offer me any assistance.
>
>  It is done with   fullnamemap  -database.
>I recall I had to add usage of that mapping into   rrouter.cf
>just before newsgroups -checkup to get this behaviour.
>
>  Of course, that (and many other things) are covered in my patches
>to present base (2.2.1) source; available via anonymous ftp from
>nic.funet.fi:/pub/unix/mail/zmailer -directory.
>
>  After that diff snapshot I have been adding some of those
>"ideas for developement" I presented a while ago.  Most recent
>thing has been adding real verbose trace of SMTP session -- it
>did need modifications into scheduler, transporter library, and
>smtp-module.
>
>> 						-Craig
>
>	/Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi> <mea@nic.funet.fi>

	I'll try those patches. It looks unfortunately like I'm going to
have to put a lot of it in by hand, since they look awfully Sun-centric...

							-Craig