Brian Henning wrote:
Okay, if I understand this correctly, CompanyX has setup an aliases file for you, or a virtusertable file, in a local ~/etc directory for you - and some how given you the ability to add users. Perhaps via virtual hosting with something like Cyrus IMAPd. If I understand that much correctly, you do not have the ability to reconfigure the way mail is actually handled for your domain, but only the local delivery aspects of it. This *probably* (if my assumptions above are correct) prohibits you from directing all mail off site. The only exception being that you might be able to trash what ever user entries you have in a virtusertable, and replace them with "@strutmasters.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]". Then you have to deal with that incoming mail that's addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and sort it based on the "To:" header of the message (or perhaps by analyzing the header appended as it hit CompanyX's mail server). Procmail should be capable of doing this, but it's a bit of a tall order. Being as I'm not a Procmail Guru, I'll leave this hanging out here and hope someone takes an interest and fills in the hole. I'm sure I could figure it out but it would probably take the better part of an hour and some testing.Hi All, People seem to wonder why I want to do such a thing, so I'll try to explain my intents a little better.. So here goes: <snipped> So does that make more sense? Here's the catch: A couple people have already suggested making an entry in /etc/mail/mailertable. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the REAL /etc/mail/mailertable (the server's root) and there is no mail directory at all in ~/etc (where our domain-specific configuration seems to reside). This means there's no make in ~/etc/mail to rebuild the mailertable hash. So, um.. Now what? Should I start asking more questions to the CompanyX support team?
Thanks as always, ~Brian, gradually becoming a peak in the TriLUG activity...
All things considered, this is a first rate Hack-Job way of doing it. :) But it might work, and it ought to be relatively reliable (negligibly less so than actually doing domain-level forwarding) - the only catch is adding users may still a two step process. Depending on how intricate your /etc/procmail recipe becomes, you may need to add a user to your machine, as well as to that recipe.
Best of luck, Aaron J.
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