Change Request - email alias handling

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Thu May 21 17:27:19 UTC 2009


On Thu, 21 May 2009, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> Right now FAS constructs email aliases only for accounts that are active.
> This is causing us two problems.
>
> 1) We have recently implemented a "bot" status for accounts that makes it so
> the account can't be logged into and don't go inactive.  This status needs to
> be allowed to get email as well.
>
> 2) inactive accounts are bouncing mail, not just from the pkgdb which I've
> been handling and have a mid-term and long-term plan for fixing but also for
> the wiki watch-page function which we currently don't have a good mid-term
> plan for.  Restoring aliases for inactive accounts seems like the best
> short-term solution for this.
>
> Fixing these requires updating the fas server code.  Attaching a patch to
> hotfix our servers with to do this.  The patch has been tested on fas1.stg
> successfully.
>

+1

	-Mike




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