Hi. Jon LaBadie (HE12026-06-24): > I'm a board member of a local club. I'd like to set up > an account on my mail host that duplicates any email > received to all the other board members (8) at their > remote email addresses. > > My simple first thought is to set up a new user "ClubBoard" > and in something like procmail to set up rules for mutt to > forward (or mutt's bounce feature) the emails to the other > members.
This is not a job for mutt, at all; procmail is enough. But unless you send the mail to the same server or another server you are in control of it will not work, the monopolistic mail operators have made sure redirections like that are no longer possible, on the pretense of fighting spam/scam¹. > One concern is endless loops. For example a board member > automagically sends back a "notice of received email receipt" > to ClubBoard and we are off to the races. You need to make sure the address the automatic replies would be sent to is not the same as the address you are redirecting in the first place. 1: Lots of efforts to enforce a genuine from address, which would be excellent against scam (and if done without breaking mailing-lists and redirections), but at the same time their UI hide the from address and only displays the free-form name, so that is not the real reason. Regards, -- Nicolas George
