From: David Ehle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am trying to consolidate multiple mail servers w/ assort MTAs to > one established mail serverr with Courier-MTA. Moving mail from mbox > format went beautifully with mb2mb, but now I have run into a > stumper. > > Since most of the machines I am conslidating were small user run > systems, there were a number of cases where bad usernames were > chosen - joe, john ect. As I consolidate it looks like there will be > a number of overlapping usernames. The main server has a good > username policy, but I want to be able to switch over mail delivery > with minimal interrruption and without my users having to send out a > warning to all their contacts that their email has changed, so I > need to be able to re-reoute > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I think the solution is to use maildrop with a filter but it looks > like a pretty steep learning curve on the maildrop filter scripting > language. > > Has any one run into a similar situation? > > I thouht that it would be as simple as doing a .mailfilter that > looked like this: > > if ( /^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/) > { > to "/home/jsmith/Maildir" > } > > > But when I test it as a .mailfilter in a testing account it appears > that since the user doesn't have write access to the other users > Maildir it just deffers delivery. (tried it with both suid and guid > for maildrop) > > I don't want to put it in maildroprc till i'm sure all is working > correctly for fear that I could mess up ALL my delivery ;) > > Is there an easy way to bounce or otherwise redirect the mail? > > something like > > to | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > but I'm just not sure. > > Thanks for any suggestions! Just trying to avoid re-inventing the > wheel.
Have you looked into using aliases? Add a file to /etc/courier/aliases with a line like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The substitution will happen at the beginning of the delivery and so the message will go through all of the normal filtering that jsmith01 would get. Bowie ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
