Peter Samuel wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Eric Cox wrote:
> >
> > Mail is delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > ~alias/.qmail-user1 contains:
> >
> > |script that writes a username into ~alias/.qmail-user2
> > &user2
>
> It would work but it's a woefully inefficient way to do it. Especially
> as qmail comes with a mechanism to do just this - /var/qmail/bin/forward.
>
> ~alias/.qmail-user1 contains:
>
> | forward `some_script_that_generates_new_addess(es)`
>
> See the man page.
The man page says that forward is a wrapper around qmail-queue.
Doesn't that mean the message makes two complete trips into and
out of the queue, while the method I described is handled
completely within qmail-local?
Granted I haven't looked at the source yet, but what have I
missed?
Eric
