On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 13:12:06 -0700, Alex M wrote:
>Its done with an MTA, if you are running sendmail or any other sendmail-ish
>MTA, read this chapter on how-to email all users:
>
>http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.21
I keep all my legitimate users in /etc/mail/virtusertable, so I just
build my aliases from that, grepping out a few special names like
"postmaster". I added the command to the Makefile in /etc/mail, so the
alias file gets rebuilt along with virtusertable.db just by typing
"make".
However, it would be nice to have a tool that could receive mail from
sendmail and that would reformat it and deposit it in the bulletins
directory with the next bulletin number. Sendmail has the ability to
run a program for a given alias, so the tool could be hooked to that.
For example, in /etc/aliases, one could have:
bulletin: |/usr/local/sbin/make-bulletin
For security, one could gpg-sign one's post and make-bulletin could
check the signature before processing it. (It could deliver posts with
failed sigs to the abuse alias.)
Ken
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