[plug] Mail to generic aliases...

[Trevor Phillips]

Brian Tombleson wrote:
> 
> From: "Trevor Phillips" <phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au>
> > Brian Tombleson wrote:
> > >
> > > Sendmail can also do this with the virtusertable.  Virtusertable handles
> the
> > > wildcard expansion and then setup aliases for your scripts.
> > >
> > > Email me if you're after specific implementation.
> >
> > Thanks all for the feedback. Seems qmail and exim have reasonably simple
> > solutions. Dare I ask how complex it would be to do in Sendmail? ^_^
> >
> > I might do some tests with Exim, seeing that's what I have on my home box.
> > Unfortunately, my usual host for mail lists does currently run Sendmail
> > (it's an Ultra5/Solaris box), although I'm still toying with the idea of
> > installing Debian on it.
> -------------
> Your original example was:
> eg; A normal mail alias may be something like:
>    fred:joebloggs at someother.place
> A normal mail script may be something like:
>    bingml:"|/my/mailist/script.pl"
> Can I go:
>    bing*:"|/my/mailist/script.pl"
> ... such that any e-mail sent to bing, bingbong, bingack, etc, all goes to
> the
> one script?
> Or the ultimate catch-all:
>    *:"|/my/catchall/script.pl"
> Is this possible (be it through a specific agent, different syntax,
> whatever)
> short of writing your own entirely? ^_^
> 
> -------------
> Assuming a couple of things inlcuding:
>  Sendmail v. 8.10 or above
>  You have persmisison from sendmail to run the script (see smrsh)
>  You have configured sendmail to actually use the virtusertable (defualt for
> RH RPM's).
>      ie. you have a line in your m4 config file similar to:
>           FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl

I don't think my manually-compiled sendmail for Solaris would have this in by
default. ^_^;

> In /etc/mail/virtusertable add the line:
> bing+*@yourdomain.com.au    bingml
> 
> In your /etc/mail/aliases file (or possibly /etc/aliases), add the line:
>    bingml:"|/my/mailist/script.pl"
> then run 'newaliases'

Cool! Thanks. I might give this a try (although I don't think my sendmail is
8.10 currently).

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