[Bug 3929] New: Consider email aliases to find user for storing prefs and bayes data

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http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3929

           Summary: Consider email aliases to find user for storing prefs
                    and bayes data
           Product: Spamassassin
           Version: 3.0.1
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P4
         Component: spamc/spamd
        AssignedTo: dev@spamassassin.apache.org
        ReportedBy: ce@ceag.ch


Users often have a number of email aliases, mostly to cope with address typos,
but also to cover the various schemas people use to derive the email address
from the name of a person. The user John Doe may, for example, have the login jd
and the following aliases:

John.Doe: jd
JohnDoe: jd
Jon.Doe: jd
JonDoe: jd
J.Doe: jd
JDoe: jd
Doe: jd
Jonny: jd
Anon: jd

However, any of these email aliases will cause spamd to claim, e.g. 

  spamd[nnnnn]: handle_user: unable to find user 'John.Doe'!

making it impossible to store user_prefs and Bayes data in
/home/jd/.spamassassin (or whatever John Doe's home directory may be). I think
that virtual user tables can be used to cope with this situation, but this may
create a lot of extra configuration and maintenance work - especially in large
companies. And, why install a new database, if /etc/aliases is already available?

Okay, here is my humble suggestion: Before giving up on a name, let's try to
find it in the aliases data base. The diff in the attachment has been produced
against 3.0.1.

Could this be a helpful enhancement?

Carsten Emde
<ce...@ceag.ch>



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