Hi, Thanks for the idea. It worked :-)
However, it will be a good idea if we could mail Ldap Groups or OUs and have that message delivered automatically to all the members of that container. Something like mail groups in Domino. Hope the developers put this in the "wish list" for implementation in future. Regards, Michael Fuller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kamau Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 12:42 PM Subject: RE: Help on mailalternateaddress > Hi Michael Fuller, > Here's what I think may solve the "broadcast" issue. > I think you may have to make use of the mailforwarding address attribute in > place of looking at building the solution on mailalternetaddress attribute. > > First create a mail account for the "boardcast" with the "mail" attribute > having the value of something like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" then create multiple > "mailforwarding" attributes (under this same "boardcast" account) each > having a single value of the email address one of the users of whom you'd > like to receive a copy of any email sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". > The expected behaviour will be that any email sent to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" will > be sent to each of the mailforwardings' attributes email values. > And there will be no email delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s maildir. > > Allan Kamau. > Web Developer > ICIPE.org > Nairobi Kenya > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ace Suares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 20 February 2003 07:12 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Help on mailalternateaddress > > > Hello everybody, > > > > We are in the process of migrating our mail server to Qmail + Qmail-LDAP > > patch. I have created a mailalternate address for all users. When I send a > > message to that id, Qmail bounces it back with this message > > > > Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) > > > > > > The intention is to use a account to sort of "broadcast" Admin messages to > > all users. How to get this right ? > > If you did something like: > > mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailaternateaddress: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > .... > > mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailalternateaddress: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > etc etc > > then it won't work: mail + mailaternateaddressen needs to be unique ! > whenever qmail-ldap detects two or more THE SAME emailaddresses it reverts > to > bouncing. > > Greetings, > ace > > > Somebody Please help > > > > Regards, > > Michael Fuller, > > Network Administrator - RAILNET, > > Signal and Telecommunication Department, > > Southern Railway, > > Park Town, Chennai - 600 003. > > Phone: +91-44-25331962, +91-44-25348123 / 627 > > E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
