On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:32PM +0800, Adrian Ho allegedly wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 07:28:04AM -0400, Philip Mak wrote:
> > I wonder if in the future, they'll make an "alias delivery" option in
> > qmail; that is, it calls an external program, but instead of sending the
> > entire message to the program, it just sends the "RCPT TO:" address to the
> > program and the program returns to it which mailbox(es) should be
> > delivered to.
>
> That's trivially done today -- no extra options required:
>
> |forward `my-redirector $RECIPIENT`
Nope.
You cut too much out of the original posting. He said:
> So it would still have the overhead of having to read a message from
> qmail, and then write that message back to qmail. That overhead would be
> unavoidable if I'm doing program delivery, I guess.
In other words he doesn't want each mail to go thru the queue twice as
your solution implies.
To answer Philip's question: Yes, that overhead is unavailable as
there is no standard qmail solution for redirecting mail without it
going thru the queue at least once.
Having said that your concern about overhead may be misplaced. What
sort of volume are you expecting on what sort of system?
Regards.
