forwarding emails

[xylex_blaiste]

hello everyone!

here's a problem:

let's say that you want this email address - fake-mail@eexu.edu, for example - to be forwarded to a certain user. without using aliases can this be done?

we're trying to simulate a "mail system" but we don't have root privileges. i know this can be done by placing an entry at /etc/aliases. we're looking for another way. ..

[xylex_blaiste]

well i guess the answer's obvious.. . can't be done.. . hehehe.. .
back to the ol' drawing board.

[kkubasik]

Sry, best bet i got would be to run a croned script on the e-mail inbox, that sends all the messages to a new address. But this is not esily scalable or resource effective, but its a possiblilty, assuming this ist too large scale as any plan would have to be implemented without root privlages would have to be run for each user, by each user.

[xylex_blaiste]

i think i used the wrong words. sorry if there's some confusion. hehehe.. .

what i really meant is that there is an incoming mail with address - fake-mail@eexu.edu - now i have aliases to the real addresses of users written in /etc/aliases, then the mta does the forwarding to the real address.

this is one obvious solution for us to "simulate" a mailing system, where we really give supposed users who supposedly sign-up/register to get a supposed email address like the one above.

but the only thing that's really happening is that all emails with such addresses in the /etc/aliases file are just being routed to one or two real email address. we then parse the "TO" header and then give the supposed user his/her email.