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03/02/07/0313227 story

Email Plugin?

posted by Krow on 09:13 AM February 7th, 2003      

I'm in charge of a slashsite for the drama department at my school, and I've had some requests from users and authors of email forwards from their usernames@stuartdrama.org to their actual email addresses. I was wondering if anyone knew of a plugin or a simple-ish method of writing a plugin that would be able to do that. Thanks!

• It's rather a MTA problem (Score:2)

  by alessio (25)

  I'd leave this job to the MTA (Mail Transport Agent), sendmail, postfix, whatever. It should be their job to look for aliases in a MySQL table, in this case users from the slash database.
  
  See for example an explanation of Postfix+MySQL [kummefryser.dk] but surely there are a lot of other solutions available on the Net.

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  • Re:It's rather a MTA problem (Score:1)

    by dannyweb (4114)

    Ok. I'm looking over those instructions, and do you think I should point postfix at the Slash users db, or I should setup slash to write user email info to a seperate db and point postfix to that db?
    • Re:It's rather a MTA problem (Score:2)

      by alessio (25)

      I would suggest the first solution, making postfix use the slash tables.

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      • Re:It's rather a MTA problem (Score:2)

        by Krow (986)

        That or dump slash into some sort of virtualhost file.

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• Warning (Score:2)

  by alessio (25)

  Please note that not all Slash nicknames are suitable as left-hand-part of an email address: valid characters for nicknames include not-alphanumeric characters and most notably space.
  
  Also, nicknames are case-sensitive, and while RFC (2)822 allows it, it's generally regarded as a bad idea. You should then apply a stricter regime on nickname verification if you want to use them in a email system.

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  • Re:Warning (Score:1)

    by dannyweb (4114)

    I hadn't thought of that, thanks!