Re: Fastforward question (was Re: Mail Forwarding Service)

[Peter van Dijk]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:35:32PM +0800, Adrian Ho 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`

That's not what he means. This still reads the message and reinjects
it. His proposal (which I have been pondering about for months already
:) means that a program can tell qmail 'send this mail you are trying
to give to me, to this address' without reinjection. This could save a
lot of disk bandwidth, IMHO.

Greetz, Peter
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