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Simon | 1 Apr 03:08

forwards?

Hi there,
  I'm new to this list: "Hello world!"

  I have popa3d installed on my linux host for a long time, it has been
working very well, but I'm trying to use a .forward file in my user directory
like this:
/home/user/.forward

The file contains only another email address, as a test...  And the email
doesn't get forwarded, eventually I would like to pipe it to a script using
"|/path/to/script.sh"...

Does popa3d supports .forward files? Is there a way to activate it, configure
it, or verify what happens with the server when the email is received?

Thanks,
  Simon

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Simon Lemieux (Simon@...)

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Sean Kelly | 1 Apr 03:48

Re: forwards?


Please correct me if I'm wrong, butI believe the .forward file is used by 
the SMTP agent, not the pop3 daemon. Look at sendmail or procmail for mail 
forwarding!

- SK

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Simon wrote:

> Hi there,
>   I'm new to this list: "Hello world!"
> 
>   I have popa3d installed on my linux host for a long time, it has been
> working very well, but I'm trying to use a .forward file in my user directory
> like this:
> /home/user/.forward
> 
> The file contains only another email address, as a test...  And the email
> doesn't get forwarded, eventually I would like to pipe it to a script using
> "|/path/to/script.sh"...
> 
> Does popa3d supports .forward files? Is there a way to activate it, configure
> it, or verify what happens with the server when the email is received?
> 
> Thanks,
>   Simon
> 
> --
> Simon Lemieux (Simon@...)
>

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Simon | 1 Apr 04:34

Re: forwards?

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:48:44 -0800 (PST), Sean Kelly wrote
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, butI believe the .forward file is 
> used by the SMTP agent, not the pop3 daemon. Look at sendmail or 
> procmail for mail forwarding!

You are... probably right!

I took a quick look in the sendmail's config file and only found a couple of
headaches...  but at least I'm closer to the solution, thanks a lot!

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Simon Lemieux (Simon@...)

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Code Monkeyboy | 1 Apr 04:40

Re: forwards?


> You are... probably right!

Sean Kelly is *definitely* correct.  It's not the role of popa3d to do
forwarding like that, because if you think about it, popa3d only runs when a
user logs in.  Your MTA or a MUA-triggered-by-an-MTA such as the
sendmail-to-procmail setup is needed.  You don't need procmail to do it,
unless you want something special.  Sendmail intrisically handles .forward
files - but you can even do it in the sendmail configuration via aliases,
virtusertables, etc.  It all depends on whether or not you want the user to be
able to edit or remove the forwardings or not.

Cheers,

=R=