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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 1997 17:45:23 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Thad Smith <tsmith@sig.net>
To:        Marco Molteni <molter@logic.it>
Cc:        Dev Chanchani <dev@wopr.inetu.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: E-mail forwarding
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95.971010174328.25652B-100000@austin.aus.sig.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971010222016.1932A-100000@dumbwinter.logic.it>

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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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