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On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, martin f krafft wrote:
As a long-time Debian user, I'd really rather not patch anything. :)
Um, I couldn't stand this policy while waiting for Sarge.
But yes, if dovecot's LDA would honour something like .forward
files, I'd be happy.
Actually, the forward files functionality is mail forwarding per user,
this is you setup two (independed) maildrops per recipient; it's a feature
of the MTA, not of the MDA.
One maildrop is the mailbox of the local user, the other one is the
auto-responder.
Maybe, you could also name it "aliasing", you alias the local recipient to
the local recipient himself and the responder (double the mail, like if
you would forward the mail to two different remote addresses). In sendmail
the main difference between ".forward" and aliases is that aliases are
executed with the permission of the MTA, but .forwards with the
permissions of the user. I don't know postfix, so I cannot use the correct
terms of it.
Sendmail uses different mailers (exim calls them transports, if I remember
correctly) for the two different maildrops, "scripts" are invoked by the
virtual "*prog*" mailer, whereas the spooling into a local mailbox is
performed by the "local" mailer, which is bound to e.g. Dovecot deliver.
http://www.postfix.org/local.8.html
"An alias or ~/.forward file may list any combination of
external commands, destination file names, :include:
directives, or mail addresses. See aliases(5) for a pre-
cise description. Each line in a user's .forward file has
the same syntax as the right-hand part of an alias."
this paragraphe should cover what I mean (section: SYSTEM-WIDE AND
USER-LEVEL ALIASING).
Bye,
- --
Steffen Kaiser
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