Re: PATCH: disable mailbox delivery

John Hohm wrote:

>The point of the patch is to handle the case where a user wants his mail forwarded, and no longer wants it to also be delivered to our system.  The resulting LDAP data is identical to a "None (no mailbox. Just forwardings)" user except that mailHost is still set, allowing mailRoutingAddress to be regenerated and the existing (but inactive) mailbox to be identified.
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As a total aside to this discussion thread, the way we provide simple 
mail forwarding only (no storage) is via mail groups. Eg create a 
mailgroup with a single member of the destination address. Works quite 
well for us.

Of course this method doesn't work as well in the situation where a user 
already exists.

Another alternative is to use Cyrus's SIEVE filtering protocol to 
forward the messages before they get stored. SmartSieve (PHP) or 
Websieve (Perl) work quite for this; there's also a plugin available for 
Squirremail that I haven't setup yet.

Wim


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