Re: Email redirects
Sandy Keathley wrote: [ ... ] Have the virtusertable rewrite the addr into a local alias, and have the local alias point to multiple external addresses. That sounds like what I need, but I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean an alias that is then picked up by the "aliases" file for forwarding? Yes, you have virtusertable point the message to an alias on the local machine. Email to that specific address gets accepted and delivered locally. As part of local delivery, alias expansion will occur, resending the message to all of the external addresses listed in the alias. Per se, that's not using "forwarding" in the specific sense of creating a local user account and a .forward file, but you could solve the problem in that fashion if you really want to. [ Likewise, using a mailing list to expand an email send to one address to a whole list of people is not "using forwarding" exactly, either, but mailing lists can be used to solve the problem you were asking about quite well. ] -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Email redirects
> I need to accept an email to a specific address, then forward it to > several several external addresses. virtusertable will do that for a > single recipient. Is there a way to do that for multiple recipients? Sure, you could dump it to an alias (/etc/mail/aliases) which contains several users in it's list, or simply put a .forward file in the users /home directory, and add each email address that it is going to on separate lines, which would forward the mail to that user to all recipients listed in the .forward file. HTH, Steve > > Thanks, > > Sandy Keathley > > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Email redirects
> > I need to accept an email to a specific address, then forward it to > several several external addresses. virtusertable will do that for a > single recipient. Is there a way to do that for multiple recipients? That is what list server utilities such as majordomo or mailman are for. THey do it quite well. But, if your need is rather small and you don't want to bother with them, you can make a "poor man's" list server by creating an alias in /etc/mail/aliases that points to an include file or even a program for processing. The alias entry would look something like: aliasname: :include:/work/mlists/aliasname-list Then put the addresses you want to forward to in that file which in the example is:/work/mlists/aliasname-list The syntax of the file is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fred Friendly) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Sneaky) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandy Keathley) You can leave off the parenthesized name if you want. Then when you send a message addressed to that [EMAIL PROTECTED] the message will be repeated to every address in the list file with the parenthesized name as the to name if you put one there. The only problems with this method are: You basically have to maintain it by hand. List server packages have tools for that built in. Without doing something extra, there is no checking on who can send to that list. So, some spammer could also send a message to it. If it is small and local, mostly spammers don't pick up on it though. You can write your own check to make sure the messages are coming from someone you want to use the list. But, it wouldn't take much extra programming to make it easier to just install mailman or majordomo. jerry > > Thanks, > > Sandy Keathley > > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Email redirects
Sandy Keathley wrote: I need to accept an email to a specific address, then forward it to several several external addresses. virtusertable will do that for a single recipient. Is there a way to do that for multiple recipients? Thanks, Sandy Keathley if you are using a 'real' username to accept the mail, you can use the .forward file... (goes in the home dir of the user) The .forward file is usually one line long and contains nothing but the address to forward to. Multiple addresses are separated by commas. Example 1: Forward my mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Example 2: Same, and also keep a copy here in my own account xyz999: \xyz999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] In both examples, the file is one line long ending with a RETURN. In the second example, the backslash \ tells the mail system not read the .forward again. -- Jonathan T. Sage Theatrical Lighting / Set Designer Professional Web Design "He said he likes me, but he's not in-like with me."- Connie, King of the Hill [HTTP://www.JTSage.com] [HTTP://design.JTSage.com] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [See Headers for Contact Info] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Email redirects
Sandy Keathley wrote: I need to accept an email to a specific address, then forward it to several several external addresses. virtusertable will do that for a single recipient. Is there a way to do that for multiple recipients? Have the virtusertable rewrite the addr into a local alias, and have the local alias point to multiple external addresses. If you get tired of managing those addrs by hand, consider having the alias point to a mailing list like Mailman. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
