Re: Postfix/Cyrus Forwarding Question

2009-11-25 Thread Wietse Venema
Dennis Putnam: I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question but I don't know where else to start. I am running Postfix/Cyrus on the same server that contains user home directories. The forwarding mechanism (.forward) is, of course, working and I understand it. What I don't

Re: Postfix/Cyrus Forwarding Question

2009-11-25 Thread Terry Carmen
Dennis Putnam wrote: I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question but I don't know where else to start. I am running Postfix/Cyrus on the same server that contains user home directories. The forwarding mechanism (.forward) is, of course, working and I understand it. What I don't

Re: Postfix/Cyrus Forwarding Question

2009-11-25 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:27:18AM -0500, Dennis Putnam wrote: I am running Postfix/Cyrus I assume you mean Cyrus IMAP... on the same server that contains user home directories. With the local(8) transport delegating delivery via mailbox_transport. The forwarding mechanism (.forward) is,

Re: Postfix/Cyrus Forwarding Question

2009-11-25 Thread Dennis Putnam
Hi Wietse, Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure I completely understand. Is the forward_path a directory on the mail server or a path to the remote users' home? Is that a per user or system setting (e.g. users' home directories may be on different servers)? I'm guessing that the forward_path is

Re: Postfix/Cyrus Forwarding Question

2009-11-25 Thread Dennis Putnam
Hi Viktor, Thanks, that clears up a few things. It appears that this applies to individual users via the $name parameter. It is not clear how to handle many users (surely I can't list everyone) which may be on different servers. Is there a wild card format and/or a default? Can the path be

Re: Postfix/Cyrus Forwarding Question

2009-11-25 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:56:41AM -0500, Dennis Putnam wrote: Thanks, that clears up a few things. It appears that this applies to individual users via the $name parameter. There is no $name parameter. That is a generic place-holder for any of the parameters above it, to explain that you can

Re: Postfix/Cyrus Forwarding Question

2009-11-25 Thread Dennis Putnam
Hi Viktor, My bad, I was referring to this line in the documentation when I used $name: $user The recipient's username. In any case I think the light is starting to glow, albeit dimly. The examples in the documentation are not very helpful. Is there someplace I can look for better ones?

Re: Postfix/Cyrus Forwarding Question

2009-11-25 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:41:37PM -0500, Dennis Putnam wrote: If I understand this correctly, I can set the forward_path to a directory No, not a directory a file, and not a file, but a set of files, one for each user. The hierarchy of that directory is not clear The construction of the

Re: Postfix/Cyrus Forwarding Question

2009-11-25 Thread Wietse Venema
Victor Duchovni: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:41:37PM -0500, Dennis Putnam wrote: If I understand this correctly, I can set the forward_path to a directory No, not a directory a file, and not a file, but a set of files, one for each user. For example I remember from historic times

Re: Postfix/Cyrus Forwarding Question

2009-11-25 Thread Peter Koinange
I belive the best way to way to to this is to use sieve k - Dennis Putnam dennis.put...@aimaudit.com wrote: I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question but I don't know where else to start. I am running Postfix/Cyrus on the same server that contains user home