Hey, Thats sounds like a very good idea to me, and I will prolly use it if it came, thats for true :-P
Are you going to publish the admin module or? Regards, Mikael Syska > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af johnny > Sendt: 29. april 2004 10:41 > Til: dbmail-dev@dbmail.org > Emne: [Dbmail-dev] Feature suggestion and/or help with patch > > Hi, ive been using dbmail for a while and find it to be a > excelent way of storing mails... > im very happy with the application... > > Currently im developing a web interface to administer dbmail > accounts and i was thinking of a feature that could be useful. > i havent found anything in the docs about this so i thought > id mail this list and see if anyone else know how to solve this.. > > The feature im talking about is mail groups... > lets pretend we have a number of users... > named something like > > john, dan, mike, jordan, lisa and kevin and they have there > aliases set to <name>@somedomain.com > > what i want to do is to be able to create one or more groups > that makes me able to add john jordan and kevin to that group > and give them an alias, something like [EMAIL PROTECTED], > and by mailing to that mail adress, those 3 will recieve a > copy of the mail with headers intact. > > if this feature doesnt exist the best way i think to go about > this is to patch dbmail-smtpd and have it perform the following logic > > when a mail arrives to dbmail-smtpd have it try to deliver it > normaly first, tho ignoring the "catch all" alias. > groups arent mailed that often so there wouldnt be much of a > speed loss here, but if it cant find anyone to deliver to it > would check the table groups > > CREATE TABLE groups ( > group_id bigint(21) NOT NULL auto_increment, > group_name varchar(150) default NULL, > PRIMARY KEY (group_id), > UNIQUE KEY group_id (group_id) > ) TYPE=MyISAM; > > and try to match the group name. > > the group_name column would be in the format > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or something like that?) If theres no > match there dbmail-smtpd would deliver to the "catch all" > alias (if any) but if dbmail-smtpd do find a match it should > check a lookup table. > > CREATE TABLE group_user ( > group_idnr bigint(21) default NULL, > user_idnr bigint(21) default NULL > ) TYPE=MyISAM; > > this table has only 2 fields, and this table is needed > because you should be able to be in 1 or more groups at the > same time, so this is the most storage efficient way to do it... > > after dbmail-smtpd has got the list of user_idnr that is > members of that group it should deliver to those users as > normal, without changing the to field... > > As i said before i dont know if theres any good way to do it > in dbmail already, if so please let me know... > if not im looking for someone that has the ability to create > a patch for dbmail-smtpd. > I have never coded C/C++ before thats why i need help on this. > Im hoping for someone that thinks this is a good idea and > want to help out. > > Thanks to the dbmail developers for a excelent application. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail-dev mailing list > Dbmail-dev@dbmail.org > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev >
