Re: Using SRS in production

Hello,

Am 11.02.2011 um 01:52 schrieb Mike Elliott:

> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:42:24PM +0100 or thereabouts, Jan L?hr wrote:

>> I'm in the need of deploying srs in production:
>> We're running a small site (debian, postfix as mta), that uses alias adresses via postfix'es virtual alias maps. Some aliases forward to external domains (eg. @gmail.com, @gmx.com), that perform spf checking. All virtual alias maps are stored in ldap (by that: if mail is received via smtp, postfix performs an ldap search in order to find all receivers).
>> 
>> In theory, srs can be implemented using a filter (for postfix) or using another mta as smarthost (having srs-capabilities already built in) - am I right?
>> Using google I found:
>> - http://www.libsrs2.org/patch/postfix-libsrs2-2.1.4-1.patch that seems quite old. Neither debian-security support is provided nor integration into postfix (upstream) is done yet.
>> - http://www.libsrs2.org/srs/Mail-SRS-0.31.tar.gz that might be used with postfix this way: http://www.postfix.org/FILTER_README.html - but I'ven't found an example config yet (however, a debian package exists)
>> 
>> So, what's your way of implementing srs?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Keep smiling
>> yanosz
>> 
> 
> I have been using the http://www.libsrs2.org/srs/Mail-SRS-0.31.tar.gz
> for the last seven years.  Unfortunately, I have been using it with
> sendmail, so I cannot give you specific details about implementation
> with postfix.  Generally, I keep a file of domain names that are
> the virtual aliases.  That list is checked by SRS for alias/unalias 
> work before normal processing happens.  I just have to automatically
> rebuild the file if there is a change in the virtualization data files.  

Thanks for your help - anyway, has anyone just tried piping postfix virtual alias map entries through srs? Since all forward-entries are defined and stored as ldap-entries a traditionally alias file is rather painful.

Thanks,
Keep smiling
yanosz