Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] 1 to 1 alias domains

[Ron G. <ro...@vn...>]

Christian Boltz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Am Sonntag, 1. Mai 2011 schrieb Ron Guerin:
>   
>> Was it a deliberate decision to only allow a one to one relationship
>> between domains for aliasing purposes?  I have one domain and 4
>> aliased to it (I added the MySQL records by hand) and if it's not
>> over my head I might try sending a patch in if the idea is
>> acceptable.  Otherwise I'm probably not going to bother changing the
>> code for myself either.
>>     
>
> I'm afraid I don't really understand your problem :-(
> Therefore I'll give a short explanation about what is allowed for alias 
> domains.
>
> It is no problem to have several domains (on the "from" side of the 
> alias) pointing to the same target domain, for example
>     foo.com -> example.com
>     bar.com -> example.com
>
> However, a domain that is already used on the "to" side can't be used on 
> the "from" side of another alias domain. For example, if you have the 
> two alias domains listed above, you can't do
>     example.com -> foobar.com   # not allowed
> This is a restriction we intentionally included because it is the 
> easiest way to avoid loops.
>   

Does not work in my version (2.3.3) .  You cannot alias both foo.com and
bar.com to example.com.  Is this a bug that got fixed?

- Ron