Re: [Q] Managing forwardees

If you can consider replacing your MTA, qmail is designed to
solve this type of problem:

ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail.html

Procmail will still be a valuable tool at the user level.

On Nov 6, 12:10am, Robby Lee may have said:
> Subject: [Q] Managing forwardees
>
> Is there a better way to manage multiple mail forwarding as follows?
>
>       USERS="(A001|A002|A003)"        #and so on
>
>       :0
>         * $^TO_$USERS
>         {
>           :0c
>           * ^TO_a001
>           ! B1(_at_)domain(_dot_)com
>
>           #. and so on
>
>           :0
>           * ^TO_a003
>           ! B3(_at_)domain(_dot_)com
>         }
>
> My question is, I'm doing this manually (adding|changing|deleting)
> but, is it possible to use some sort of file to manage this??
>
> e.g. filename "list.txt" contains the following.
>
>       A001
>       B1(_at_)domain(_dot_)com
>       A002
>       B2(_at_)domain(_dot_)com
>       ...etc.
>
> Now the receipe.
>
>       LIST=`egrep '^[^@ ]+$' list.txt`
>       USERS=`echo $LIST | sed 's/  /|/g'`
>
>       :0
>       * $^TO_\/($USERS)
>       { USER=$MATCH
>         FORWARDEE=`grep -A 1 -wi $USER list.txt | tail -1`
>         :0
>         ! $FORWARDEE
>       }
>
>       # This doesn't allow for multiple receipients.
>
> Any comments would be appreciated.
>
>
> -- End of excerpt alledgedly from Robby Lee


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