Sam Varshavchik wrote:
I never implemented recursive mail LDAP alias lookups.
This is what I thought you were referring to earlier, and there's no way
this worked before, simply because I never implemented recursive LDAP
mail alias lookups.
I believe you, but I know I'm not crazy[1]. So I thought that perhaps
we found a bug that looked like a feature and I spent some time with
an older courier trying to reproduce it. I failed miserably. Whatever
was causing aliases to loop must have been a combination of various
misconfigurations working together.
Plus, I have to question whether it is proper to have recursive LDAP
aliases in the first place.
Of course it's not, and it can lead to chaos if the aliases happen to
loop into full circle. But it happens, especially when too many cooks
are stirring the soup, as the case is when IT delegates e-mail address
management to department secretaries and the like. A certain degree of
forgivingness on such things can help offload boring routine tasks from
qualified sysadmins to where they belong. So while I think you're
absolutely right from a technical point of view, a "bug" like this can
come pretty handy in practical life.
Z
[1] Yeah, I know, that's what they all say...
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