Email Forwarding Service
Does anyone know what would be a good solution for an email forwarding service? Either hosted or something we could deploy in-house.
Something that would simply forward messages sent to mailboxuser@risd.edu on to an address of mailboxusers choice. Something that would be self-service?
Any ideas are welcome.
Regards, Jeff
On 01/28/09 10:31, Jeff Bernier wrote:
Does anyone know what would be a good solution for an email forwarding service? Either hosted or something we could deploy in-house.
Depending on what ""features (or lack of faults) you are wanting there are quite a few things that /can/ be done.
However I don't think that Mailman (as good a product as it is) is even on the list of things that can be done. Mailman is intended to re-send messages that were sent to one mailing list address out to to multiple mailing list subscribers, Where as forwarding is usually a 1 to 1 type of thing, not the 1 to many that Mailman is meant for.
Something that would simply forward messages sent to mailboxuser@risd.edu on to an address of mailboxusers choice. Something that would be self-service?
It sounds like you are already part way down the very slippery slop with roller skates on and the wind at your back.
Any ideas are welcome.
I'm not sure that the Mailman Users mailing list is the best place to discuss this. If you would like to do so off list, drop me an email directly and I'll give you my opinion on this topic. Or if others say that it's "ok" to discuss this here, we can do so.
Grant. . . .
Grant Taylor writes:
On 01/28/09 10:31, Jeff Bernier wrote:
Does anyone know what would be a good solution for an email forwarding service?
I'm not sure that the Mailman Users mailing list is the best place to discuss this.
It's not. Since deploying in-house is mentioned as an option, you could just use the forwarding options of $MTA_DEVIL_YOU_KNOW, supported by some scripting and/or suid voodoo as necessary. I would suggest the support channels of $MTA_DEVIL_YOU_KNOW as a better place to ask. They would also be the likely place where people who build such applications (if there any exist, I don't know) would gather to request features, bug fixes, and general advice.
AFAIK Python has no "MTA management" modules, although you might try the Cheeseshop (PyPI or whatever it's called nowadays) if implementation language is what led you to Mailman.
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