Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] Integration with MLM?

[Christian B. <pos...@cb...>]

Hello,

Am Dienstag, 11. Januar 2011 schrieb Aaron:
> On 1/11/2011 4:55 AM, Christian Boltz wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 11. Januar 2011 schrieb Aaron:
> >> Here's a dumb question, what about integrating some kind of post
> >> hook  when using option #1?  ie, some kind of pluggable script
> >> spot where you could pass something like
> >> 
> >> external-command.sh [add|remove|modify] aliasname ?
> > 
> > I don't see a real need for script hooks when aliases are created,
> > modified or deleted. If you have a usecase, tell me ;-)
> 
> Other than handling potential MLM integration?  I can't think of
> another use currently, no. 

I'm afraid I don't get your point (yet) - how would you handle this? 
Creating a mailinglist is much more than just adding an alias...

> There may be additional cases where
> you'd pipe an alias out to an external command for handling, but I
> haven't run across them yet.

You don't even *want* to control aliases with a pipe as target in the 
web interface - the security risk is too big. (What about piping a mail 
to "| rm -rf /"? ;-)  (and it's forbidden for databases in postfix 
anyways - pipe targets have to be in text-based maps.)

[post-* scripts]
> That's kind of what I was thinking would be right for aliases.
> 
> Creating the aliases in postfixadmin first, then running whatever
> additional commands manually isn't an impossible task, but I have to
> admit being able to do everything in one place has it's benefits.  I
> can see how it would add complexity, you'd certainly need to add
> something like "enable external script" as an unselected checkbox to
> avoid running the external hook on every alias transaction.
> 
> Would it be difficult to extend the existing script options to
> include a set for aliases ? (and make it selectable on the alias
> page?)

Difficult is relative ;-) but I don't see how adding an alias can be 
used to create a mailinglist - it misses some important information like 
the list owner's mail address, admin password for the mailinglist etc.

OTOH, creating a mailinglist is a totally different task and unrelated 
to creating an alias (creating an alias is only a very small part of 
creating a mailinglist), so I'd prefer to have a separate page/script to 
do that.

At the risk of disappointing you: I have several things on my TODO list 
that are more important, therefore I won't have time to work on this. 
However, if you come up with a good solution, we'll probably accept your 
patch ;-) (And, BTW, which MLM are you talking about?)


Regards,

Christian Boltz
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