[olug] Re: Email forwarding - is OLUG better than Google?

Brian Roberson roberson at olug.org
Fri Jan 24 06:26:34 UTC 2003


If you are going for ease of implementation....

qmail and fast forward

http://www.qmail.org
http://cr.yp.to/fastforward.html
http://lifewithqmail.org



----- Original Message -----
From: "Nate Rotschafer" <writetogenius at hotmail.com>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Re: Email forwarding - is OLUG better than Google?


> If it was me I would be looking to exim and mysql...mysql will scale much
> better than flat files and with exim you can make any transports and
> directors you want...if you need specific help with setting this up I
would
> be happy to help as this is basically how mine is setup now...I allow
people
> to deliver it to a maildir or forward it to their own email...all
specificed
> in my database as the deliver to place...
>
> Nate
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "doumakes at loganet.net" <Don.Doumakes at debs.pinko.net>
> To: <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:14 AM
> Subject: [olug] Re: Email forwarding - is OLUG better than Google?
>
>
> > On 2003.01.23 10:22 Matt Payne wrote:
> > > I'm looking to build an email forwarding service with free
> > > software....
> > >
> > > End users signup on a webpage to have TheirName at BetterBrains.com be
> > > forwarded to
> > > theirRealEmail at whatever.com.   The end user never has a shell account.
> >
> > The simple way is to use sendmail aliases.  All the mappings from
> > betterbrains.com addresses to real addresses would be in a flat text
> > file.  That approach probably wouldn't scale well.
> >
> > Sendmail 8.12+ can do LDAP lookups (see
> >
>
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.1-Manual/ref-guide/s1-sendmai
> l-ldap.html).
> > I've been planning to experiment with this but need to upgrade my
> > system first.  I also understand exim can do LDAP routing.
> >
> > --
> > Don Doumakes
> >
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