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From: fillmore@SUN2.EMR.CA (Bob Fillmore)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Redistributing mail by username
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Date: 14 May 91 22:09:14 GMT
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I would like to know what would be the most efficient way for a mail gateway
machine to redistribute mail by username.  We would like most mail coming in
from the Internet to come to a common machine, which would examine the user
name part of the address and decide which host to forward it to.  I presume
a list of sendmail rules could be set up, one rule per username, but I suppose
this will slow down sendmail quite a bit.  The other possibility would be to
register each username as a user of the mail gateway and set up .forward files
to redistribute the mail, but this causes more administrative overhead on the
gateway machine.

Any ideas?   Thanks for any suggestions.

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