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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:29:52 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Thad Smith <tsmith@sig.net>
To:        Bo Fussing <bmf@homegate.net>
Cc:        Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it>, Dev Chanchani <dev@wopr.inetu.net>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: E-mail forwarding
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95.971013000222.16567B-100000@austin.aus.sig.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971012094850.20343E-100000@satie.hk.homegate.net>

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On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Bo Fussing wrote:

> Dev,
> 
> I second the use of qmail. As Marco said it is really easy to set up such
> that one user can be associated with a hosted domain and he/she can add
> and remove users in that domain without having to go through the System
> Administrator.

Yeah, it could be great. I figured he'd want the quick answer to his
question, and check out upgrading his system to qmail later. That's all.

Thad


> 
> Take a look at www.qmail.org and consider throwing your Bat Book away. I
> did!
> 
> Bo
> 
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> On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Thad Smith wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Marco Molteni wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Dev Chanchani wrote:
> > > 
> > > > We have virtual web hosting. So far, as clients need e-mail forwarding, we
> > > > simply enter their forwarding rules into /etc/virtusertable. However, as
> > > > we have more sites to manage now, this becomes a bit cumbersome.
> > > > 
> > > > Here is what I am looking to do:
> > > > Have each virtual web site associated with a user. So say, joe has
> > > > www.schmoe.com. Then all e-mail to schmoe.com will be directed to joe via
> > > > virtusertable.
> > > 
> > > Throw away sendmail and use qmail (www.qmail.org). With qmail, this
> > > sort of things is really easy (well, IMHO, *all* is easier ;-). Plus,
> > > you get a *secure* mailer.
> > 
> > 
> > What!? Biased opinion. Sendmail does it with .forward files. Just put in
> > the address that the user wants to forward email to. Sendmail does the
> > rest. The .forward file sits in the users home directory and is editable
> > by him.
> > 
> > Thad
> > 
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