RE: forwarding to a dynamic / variable address ??

[Brett]

Hmm. Well, you could set up a .qmail-default file in xyz's directory that
has this:

| find_and_forward.pl

where find_and_forward.pl is your perl script that dynamically finds the
forward address for xyz. Then in order to actually forward the message just
read <> into a variable (say, $message) and inject that into qmail with
qmail-inject which, in perl, would look something like this:

$mail_prog = '/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject';

$mail =  "To: $to_name <$to_email>\r\n";
$mail .= "From: $from_name <$from_email>\r\n";
$mail .= "Subject: $subject\r\n\r\n";
$mail .= "$message\r\n";

system ("echo '$mail' | $mail_prog");

Obviously the $to_email came from your SQL database search and you can
either parse the message for the $subject or fudge your own. Better methods
than this? I'm sure there are several but this is what immediately comes to
mind.

Brett.



-Original Message-
From: Kim Chr. Hvidkjaer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 10:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: forwarding to a dynamic / variable address ??


Hello All,

I'm trying to do a forwaring-service, where the users each have an address
(ie [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and any mail sent to this address is forwarded to their
_actual_ address (perhaps a hotmail-address or similiar).

I know how to forward (& [EMAIL PROTECTED]) but how do I do it dynamically? I
can do a php or perl-script that will digg out the needed to-address from my
mySql-database, but don't know how to do the actual forwarding??

any help is greatly appriciated!




(I've subscribed to the list, but am not getting any mail yet, so please cc:
[EMAIL PROTECTED])

// Kim

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: forwarding to a dynamic / variable address ??

[Wagner Teixeira]

You can make a script in your preferred language that reads the message, get
the destination address (Delivered-To:), query for its alias in a DB, and
finally reinject it into the queue using qmail-inject, sendmail or other,
keeping the original sender address and optionally adding your ads, tails...

.qmail-default:

|/path_to_your_script

Regards
Wagner.

> -Original Message-
> From: Kim Chr. Hvidkjaer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Quinta-feira, 3 de Maio de 2001 14:38
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: forwarding to a dynamic / variable address ??
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I'm trying to do a forwaring-service, where the users each have an address
> (ie [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and any mail sent to this address is
> forwarded to their
> _actual_ address (perhaps a hotmail-address or similiar).
>
> I know how to forward (& [EMAIL PROTECTED]) but how do I do it
> dynamically? I
> can do a php or perl-script that will digg out the needed
> to-address from my
> mySql-database, but don't know how to do the actual forwarding??
>
> any help is greatly appriciated!
>
>
>
>
> (I've subscribed to the list, but am not getting any mail yet, so
> please cc:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> // Kim
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>

Re: forwarding to a dynamic / variable address ??

[Charles Cazabon]

Kim Chr. Hvidkjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to do a forwaring-service, where the users each have an address
> (ie [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and any mail sent to this address is forwarded to their
> _actual_ address (perhaps a hotmail-address or similiar).
> 
> I know how to forward (& [EMAIL PROTECTED]) but how do I do it dynamically? I
> can do a php or perl-script that will digg out the needed to-address from my
> mySql-database, but don't know how to do the actual forwarding??

Have your script call qmail-inject, qmail-queue, or /usr/sbin/sendmail (as
appropriate).  There are good man pages for each of these.

Charles
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