Re: [Exim] exim and sql forwarding

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On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 13:14:35 +0100, Philipp Jacob wrote:
> I already found some ideas on that topic, but it was all related to
> exim4. I use exim 3.35 on a debian box with pgsql support.
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> I'd like to use the value in the 'forward' column (if NOT NULL) and
> deliver to that address instead of delivering locally.

Run
"SELECT local_part, forward FROM table WHERE forward NOT NULL" > \
/etc/aliases

on a regular basis. You'll have to correct the SQL, and munge the output
into an appropriate format for /etc/aliases. You could come up with
something more dynamic, but who wants to make their mail server more
fragile than necessary ?
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