aliased alias ?

I have been working on converting my vpopmail system to
dbmail.  The
only problem I have had so far is that I cannot add an alias
to point
to another alias on the same system.  You may ask yourself,
why would
I want to do that?  There are a few reasons.  Here is one.

I work at a call center.  We have high employee turn around.
 So when
an employee leaves, I delete their account and then create
an alias
with the same name that points to the department manager. 
Our
department managers also come and go or are out sick, so I
have an
alias pointing to them so I can easily redirect their mail.

So mail from (Xemployee1)-goes
to->(deptmanager)->realuseraccount
Each of the above entries in () is an alias.

This makes management very easy.  According to the database
schema, an
alias points to a user_idnr, which means that it needs to be
a real
user to work.  Is there anyway around this within dbmail?

Thanks,

Matt

Postfix
DBMAIL 2.0.4
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>  According to the database schema, an
> alias points to a user_idnr, which means that it needs
to be a real
> user to work.  Is there anyway around this within
dbmail?

  You can point an alias to another alias, the lookup is
recursive.

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On 4/26/05, Jesse Norell <jessekci.net> wrote:
> 
> >  According to the database schema, an
> > alias points to a user_idnr, which means that it
needs to be a real
> > user to work.  Is there anyway around this within
dbmail?
> 
>  You can point an alias to another alias, the lookup is
recursive.
> 
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> Jesse Norell
> jesse  kci.net
> 
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Pardon my ignorance, but going through the man pages for
dbmail-users,
I don't see any syntax for adding an alias that points to
another
alias.  I also dont see how it can do it using the dbmail
schema.

Perhaps you could enlighten me a bit more?

Thanks,

Matt
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dbmail-users -x somealiasmydomain -t otheraliasmydomain


Matt Salerno wrote:
> On 4/26/05, Jesse Norell <jessekci.net> wrote:
> 
>>> According to the database schema, an
>>>alias points to a user_idnr, which means that it
needs to be a real
>>>user to work.  Is there anyway around this
within dbmail?
>>
>> You can point an alias to another alias, the lookup
is recursive.
>>
>>--
>>Jesse Norell
>>jesse  kci.net
>>
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> 
> 
> Pardon my ignorance, but going through the man pages
for dbmail-users,
> I don't see any syntax for adding an alias that points
to another
> alias.  I also dont see how it can do it using the
dbmail schema.
> 
> Perhaps you could enlighten me a bit more?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
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On 4/27/05, Paul J Stevens <paulnfg.nl> wrote:
> dbmail-users -x somealiasmydomain -t otheraliasmydomain
> 
> 


That's exactly what I needed.  I didn't know that I could
populate the
deliver_to field in the dbmail_aliases table with e-mail
addresses.

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