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List:       dovecot
Subject:    Re: [Dovecot] (no subject)
From:       Giles Coochey <giles () coochey ! net>
Date:       2012-05-29 14:21:30
Message-ID: 4FC4DB6A.40409 () coochey ! net
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On 29/05/2012 14:59, Phil Petree wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I'm developing a site on a VPS that comes stock with dovecot 1.2.17 and I'm
> trying to setup some functionality that is very specific to our business
> model.
>
> My question is this:  How do I create (programatically) aliases for a
> forwarder?
>
> I have an address, email@domain.com that gets sent to a php script and I
> want users to be able to send to that script via any number of different
> names (could ultimately be 1000's).
>
> I'm thinking that I append/delete from the etc/aliases file and then run
> #newaliases
>
> So that email@domain.com will answer on dummy@domain.com or
> dothis@domain.com, once the email comes in, I can check the header, get who
> it was really sent to, do all my checks, perform the necessary action blah
> blah blah... and be able to do it all on one piece of code (my fantasy LOL).
>
> Am I on the right track here or is this simply not going to work?
>
>
Seems fairly straight forward, not sure how this applies to dovecot though.
Have you tried asking this question on sendmail / postfix lists?
They're the ones who interact with the aliases file.

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Regards,

Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS
NetSecSpec Ltd
+44 (0) 7983 877438
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