Re: [Exim] Email forwarding with virtual users

On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Daniel Cooper wrote:

> Ok,
> I am using exim 4.10, and I am happy to upgrade to the lastest if required.
> This smtp server is serving about 5 different domains.

You should upgrade to exim 4.12 it has many new features.

> Most of the uses have no real understanding on how to use computers (read:
> family), hence I do not want to give them logins on my computer.
>
> All the MailDirs exit under /opt/services/<domain>/<local_part> on the
> file system.
>
> I have this in my exim.conf for the redirects, however I basically copied
> it off the manual.

What "this?"

> I am not sure of a way for the users to easily modify their .forward files

Webinterface?

> yet, so I have no preference to use .forward files in the MailDirs or a
> single file in (eg. /etc/mailforwards).
> For the moment, I imagine I will manually update the forwards, but in the
> future, if there is a way to make this functionality available to the
> users, then I will try and get that working.

A simple router for your needs.

virtual_aliases:
driver = redirect
data = ${lookup {$local_part@$domain} lsearch*@ {/etc/mailforwards}}


/etc/mailforwards should look like this

user1@???: user3@???
user2@???: user1@???
*@domain3.com: user1@???
etc...

ciao