Mail Domain

Contact/Coordinator: TBD.

• The OX email redirector uses Hesiod zone files to do remappings

Currently, we do zone transfers of things like 'ssw.ox.org', inode.ox.org, and a script goes through them to produce a master "alias" file for ox.org, which is itself a zone file. The idea is that anybody can transfer all the *.ox.org "components" and build the top level file themselves. How each of the *.ox.org components are created is up to each participating node. Right now, we edit things ourselves. However, it would be nice to have some CGI's that people could base their local systems on, and so that we could actually publicize this thing.

What we need is a set of CGI's to:

• create a user in a database, associating some local password.
• edit the account to change the fields: forwarding email address, URL of "home" page, and URL of "interests" page (The "interests" page might be in IAFA format instead of HTML), and also aliases.
• a program to dumb the database to DNS format. [I'd suggest that we use userid.interest.ns.ox.org for the "interests" file. Matthew's people database can use that data to local stuff, and he probably should define the format of the IAFA file]
• a way to remove a user, both for the administrator, and for the user themselves.

All three are simple perl CGI's that can use whatever database one wants.

This project also needs a QMAIL module to do the redirection as it currently only has sendmail support. [That is a seperate problem]

Last update: $Date: 1998/02/02 23:56:21 $