[imp] .forward

[Tim Gorter]

Hello Andreas,

> > Has anybody written a patch or module for IMP 2.2.4 that will place a
> > forwarding address in the home directory of a user.
> 
> Yes I did! And I thing it depends on your server structure. I had to write a
> wrapper, which can change the UID to any user of the system and copy the
> .forward file from an IMPwritten file (owned by apachedaemon) to the user home
> directory. This is necessary because in home directory only the user has access
> to write (at our server). Also root and apachedaemon aren't allowed to write
> this file.
> 
> > ie. a field in preferences, where when an email address is entered, it
> will
> > write a .forward file into the home user directory, which on unix (or unix
> > alike) systems will then forward all email automatically.
> If you provide to add adresses to .forward I think you also have to provide a
> funtion to remove, view and edit entries.
> 
> If you want, I can give you the sourcecode of the wrapper.
> CU Andreas Rohr

Yes, I would be very interested, if you could email, or post it at a ftp site 
so I can download it, it would be much appreciated.

cheers,
tim.

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