PMDF System Manager's Guide

A DIRBOT is a PMDF channel, namely a SYNC_DIRBOT channel, and has to be configured in the PMDF configuration just like any other channel. This means adding a rewrite rule to the rules section of the PMDF configuration file, and adding a channel definition to the channel definition section.

If the SMTP host name of the system on which a DIRBOT is to run is example.com, then the rewrite rule for the corresponding SYNC_DIRBOT channel could be:

dirsync.example.com $U%dirsync.example.com@DIRBOT-DAEMON

and the matching channel definition would be

sync_dirbot_local single DIRBOT-DAEMON

This configuration means that mail addressed to dirbot@dirsync.example.com (or indeed to anyuser@dirsync.example.com) will be processed by the directory synchronization robot.