Auto-Reply and Mail Forwarding (Bash, MySQL)

[Zdravko Stoychev]

Hey all!


provided as well. This package could be useful for any virtual hosting.



   |/var/qmail/bin/forwardcheck.sh





   [EMAIL PROTECTED]


forwarded messages will not be kept.

Hope this could be useful to someone.

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 Zdravko Stoychev
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I'm posting here few scripts which implement Mail Forwarding and Auto-Responder for qmail(-ldap). All settings are stored in MySQL database (create-sql file is provided) and could be managed from any third-party tool as Horde's Vacations module, for example. Administrative command-line scripts are How to use it? First, create the DB, and grand rights to qmail, alias and administrative users to use it. Copy qmail-bin scripts to /var/qmail/bin and chown them properly. Copy qmail-alias scripts to alias/~ and chown it as well. Then include forwardcheck.sh in your qmail run script (default delivery) like this usualy before ./Maildir/ line. Again, make sure the qmail user has right to use this MySQL database. If you are going to write sql by hand in order to integrate it to third-party tools (web-mail), please note that all e-mail addresses stored in DB have a space character in front of them. Local users can activate/deactivate mail forwarding remotely by sending a blank email to this address specifying forwarding address in Subject line in order to set it up, or dast (-) in order to deactivate it. Make sure the alias user has right to use the MySQL database. Note that in this case local copy of

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