on 28/2/02 2:19 pm, Christoph Puppe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Salve all, > > I'm looking for a way to generate new virtual users, when a mail to a > nonexistent one arrives. > > I've thought about global filters, which are very expensive, so they > aren't the way to go. If there is another way, that is. > > Tweaking postmaster to a script that takes the mails, checks if it is a > user unknown and then generates the maildir and sets up the user was an > idea as well. > > Any good ideas to do this out there?
This seems like a bad idea (I could spam your server and create 1000 new accounts just for the hell of it). How about scaling it down a bit and having such mail delivered to a single nominated account with a custom filter installed. When mail arrives for an address that has not been seen before then create a new sub-folder in the maildir and deliver to that. I suppose you could always add a cron job which searched that user's maildir for such folders and created the new accounts. For that matter this approach would not require the sub-folders - reformail could easily extract the destination email address from any messages it found in the nominated maildir. -- Tim Hosking Trans corpus meum mortuum. - Over my dead body. _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
