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Date:      Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:08:14 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        sandy@keathleywebs.com, freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Email redirects
Message-ID:  <416C2B9E.4070202@mac.com>
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Sandy Keathley wrote:
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>> Have the virtusertable rewrite the addr into a local alias, and have the local 
>> alias point to multiple external addresses. 
> 
> That sounds like what I need, but I'm not sure I understand.  Do you 
> mean an alias that is then picked up by the "aliases" file for 
> forwarding?  

Yes, you have virtusertable point the message to an alias on the local 
machine.  Email to that specific address gets accepted and delivered locally. 
  As part of local delivery, alias expansion will occur, resending the message 
to all of the external addresses listed in the alias.

Per se, that's not using "forwarding" in the specific sense of creating a 
local user account and a .forward file, but you could solve the problem in 
that fashion if you really want to.

[ Likewise, using a mailing list to expand an email send to one address to a 
whole list of people is not "using forwarding" exactly, either, but mailing 
lists can be used to solve the problem you were asking about quite well. ]

-- 
-Chuck



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