Sendmail / Email copy

[Rick Stevens]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mi, den 17.03.2004 schrieb Robert Boucneau um 22:23:
> 
>>>The customer has an emergency@ email address on this server, which works
>>>fine with POP and IMAP.  But now we wants the email to go to the POP/IMAP
>>>account, and also the emails to be sent to Sprint PCS phones and a on-call
>>>pager.
>>
>>One clean option would be to create a procmail script for the emergency
>>"user" (edit or create .procmailrc in /home/emergency).
> 
> 
> Hu! You call that a "clean option"? To call a separate LDA - remember:
> LDA means local delivery agent! -  while Sendmail has the feature
> already build in, both in aliases and virtusertable (if virtual domain
> hosting). Ok, it would work, but I do not call that clean or straight :)

It is absolutely clean and straight for single users.  procmail is used
as the LDA on any message destined for a local mailbox anyway.  Make it
do its job with a localized "~/.procmailrc" for the users that need that
feature.  They could also do a similar thing with "~/.forward".

That's what those things are there for--to allow single users to tweak
things without affecting the general system.

(speaking as a guy who manages 50,000+ mail accounts on 10,000 domains)
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