Not sure what to call this - I'm actually working out the details as I type this. I want to have a valid username/password for an account for sending purposes - but when receiving this is an alias that broadcasts to several users. Example: accountspayable at mydomain.com - is an alias for jane at mydomain.com, june at mydomain.com, and john at mydomain.com. However - any mails sent (from a particular client software) should all only show "accountspayable" as the sender. How would I implement this? I'm asking here because Dovecot serves as the authentication mechanism for my SMTP server (Postfix) via LDAP lookups. -- Daniel
On 11:59 AM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:> > I want to have a valid username/password for an account for sending > purposes - but when receiving this is an alias that broadcasts to > several users. > > Example: accountspayable at mydomain.com - is an alias for > jane at mydomain.com, june at mydomain.com, and john at mydomain.com. However - > any mails sent (from a particular client software) should all only show > "accountspayable" as the sender. > > How would I implement this? I'm asking here because Dovecot serves as > the authentication mechanism for my SMTP server (Postfix) via LDAP lookups.I would do this with a Mailman mailing list (of course I'm a Mailman developer, and as they say, when your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail - YMMV) If you had Mailman installed you just set up your accountspayable at mydomain.com list as a Mailman 'anonymous' list. Then any mail to accountspayable at mydomain.com is distributed to the list members From: accountspayable at mydomain.com. -- Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Daniel L. Miller schrieb: [..]> Example: accountspayable at mydomain.com - is an alias for > jane at mydomain.com, june at mydomain.com, and john at mydomain.com. However - > any mails sent (from a particular client software) should all only show > "accountspayable" as the sender.If you yust want to appear like comming to your clients with 'From: <accountspayable at mydomain.com>' it might be the easiest to define a new identity in your MUA with accountspayable at mydomain.com for your email address. Else you create accountspayable at mydomain.com as a normal user but prohibit him to login with imap or pop (like Timo suggested). In this case you can also implement a public mailbox with shared flags. [..] Dennis