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2 summary: "Point alias accounts or domains to correct XMPP user"
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3 labels:
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4 - 'Stage-Alpha'
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7 Introduction
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8 ============
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10 This module allows you to set up aliases that alert people who try to
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11 contact them or add them to their roster what your actual JID is. This
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12 is useful for changing JIDs, or just in the case where you own both
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13 example.com and example.net, and want people who contact you@example.com
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14 to be alerted to contact you at you@example.net instead.
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16 This type of aliasing is well supported in the email world, but very hard
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17 to handle with XMPP, this module sidesteps all the hard problems by just
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18 sending the user a helpful message, requiring humans to decide what they
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19 actually want to do.
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21 This doesn't require any special support on other clients or servers,
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22 just the ability to receive messages.
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24 Configuration
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25 =============
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27 Add the module to the `modules_enabled` list.
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29 modules_enabled = {
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31 "alias";
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32 }
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34 Then set up your list of aliases, aliases can be full or bare JIDs,
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35 or hosts:
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37 aliases = {
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38 ["old@example.net"] = "new@example.net";
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39 ["you@example.com"] = "you@example.net";
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40 ["conference.example.com"] = "conference.example.net";
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41 }
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43 You can also set up a custom response, by default it is:
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45 alias_response = "User $alias can be contacted at $target";
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47 A script named mod_alias_postfixadmin.sh is included in this directory to
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48 generate the aliases array directly from a postfixadmin MySQL database.
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49 Instructions for use are included in the script.
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51 Compatibility
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52 =============
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55 trunk as of 2024-10-22 Works
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