Re: ~/.forward file ...

From: Simon White (no email)
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 06:02:10 EST


02-Nov-02 at 09:06, Jatin Nansi () wrote :
> Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> >Please re-state the question.
> >
> >
> Ok here goes:
>
> These people have setup a kind of mailing list. When you send mail to an
> email id, that mail has got to land in every ones mailbox. Now all the
> mail ids to be a part of the mailing list are bunched up and put into
> the .forward of that 1 email id.
>
> For eg. user id is and in ~allusers/.forward all
> mail ids which are supposed to get mail for that list are mentioned. so
> when u send mail to , the mail is sent to every 1 in
> the .forward. Now this list is > 6500 users. This used to work in
> sendmail, will postfix accept such a setup ?

This will work with Postfix, you might have to change some parameters.

It is downright ugly to have a single address exploded in a .forward
file to go to 6500 users. You really ought to use a mailing list manager
for that. You also have complex configuration requirements to stop
people from outside finding the allusers address and spamming all your
users wholesale with *one* email.

The bottom line, however, is that Postfix will of course be able to
deliver these mails, but it makes me cringe to think of an alias with
6500 recipients.

-- 
[Simon White. vim/mutt. . GIMPS:77.13% see www.mersenne.org]
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build
bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce
bigger and better idiots.  So far, the Universe is winning.  -- Rich Cook
-
To unsubscribe, send mail to  with content
(not subject): unsubscribe postfix-users







Hosted Email Solutions

Invaluement Anti-Spam DNSBLs



Powered By FreeBSD   Powered By FreeBSD