I would like to forward email sent to user1234@domain1.com to user@domain2.com. I believe qmail comes with fastforward that reads the .qmail file in user1234's home directory and forwards it accordingly. I, however, would like to be able to forward emails based on just one file in one directory, not many files in many home directories so that I can add many userXXXX@domain1.com email addresses into that one file.

Such use for a system would be, for example, to anonymize email addresses in public posts from spammers. Does anybody have suggestions? Thanks.

You should be able to do it by creating a local .qmail file in $HOME for the user by adding

&[userID]@[host]

the & is for forwarding message.

try it. it should work. don't forget to restart the service on ther server.


J

Hi.

I would like to be able to forward emails without having to create a .qmail file in $HOME for every user on the system. If I understand your suggestion correctly, that would amount to one .qmail file per user per $HOME directory and if I have a 100 people posting that means I have to create a 100 user accounts on the system on top of creating the .qmail files--something I'd rather not do for security reasons.

The goal is to write a program that will generate an anonymized email address for a user, say John Doe, that would be user1234@domain1.com rather than requiring user John Doe to specify his real email address, johndoe@domain2.com, whenever he posts to a forum. That anonymized email is listed in a post and any email messages going to the anonymized email address will then be automatically forwarded to johndoe@domain2.com. In this way, if John Doe tires of receiving unwanted email messages, he can simply delete this anonymized email address from the system through a web interface, create a new one, and no longer be bothered.

I hope I have clariified my question. Thanks.