> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Burns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 4:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: feature question/request
>
>
> ON Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 03:40:46PM -0400, Nathan J. Mehl wrote:
> > In the immortal words of Michael Burns ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > Is it possible, using qmailadmin, to forward a single local address to
> > > multiple addresses?
> >
> > We generally call such things "mailing lists" where I come from. Is
> > there something about ezmlm that makes it unacceptable for this
> > purpose?
Would you also advocate the use of a jackhammer over a nut cracker for
gaining access to almonds?
> It's unacceptable in the same way that a mailing list of one is
> an unacceptable substitute for a forward. Would it be a case of
> feeping creaturism to parse commas and whitespace or add another
> textfield to the forward menu instead of delegating it to the
> mailing list menu?
The terminology used in qmailadmin is very strange compared to the other
MTAs that I've experienced. Anyone remember sendmail? You know... that
bloated MTA that held the internet together for so many years? An alias is
like this:
sales: april,may,june
Say I want my customers to be able to email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Under
the other 3 MTAs I've worked with (sendmail, exim, postfix), I would create
an ALIAS that points to the local staff accounts that should recieve mail
sent to the support address (without actually creating a 'support' mailbox).
If a user or employee leaves me, I cry. But, after I'm done crying, I'm
nice enough to set up a forwarding for them ($HOME/.forward), which gets
deleted when I delete the account. I need to rethink this as well. Not
quite sure how to handle this gracefully under qmailadmin (so that when I do
a vdeluser, the .qmail-blah file goes away too, or perhaps set an expiration
time, after which the .qmail-bleh file goes away automatically).
Oh, anyways, topic. If I want to host a mailing list for open subscription,
then I use a list manager (procmail, now exmlm).
Don't get me wrong. Qmailadmin is fine the way it is, in fact, the 2
customers I've given access to it absolutely love it. They can maintain
their own accounts without having to call and bug us (I love that feature as
well :).
In qmailadmin 0.35, I am able to specify multiple destinations on a forward.
It takes some clicking 'n stuff to do, but it's possible. Again, this is
odd though. I think of a forward as 1:1, an alias as 1:n, and a mailing
list as 1:n^x.
I just need to change the way I think, and in another 5 years when the next
great MTA comes out, I'll have to change again (unless of course I'm a
retired millionaire by then :).
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Troy Settle
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