1:N address expansion #401
Description
Use case
It it described on wikipedia:
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Role-addresses
info, sales, postmaster, and similar names[6] can appear to the left of @ in email addresses. An organization may forward messages intended for a given role to the address of the person(s) currently functioning in that role or office. -
Multiple, or discontinued addresses
When users change their email address, or have several addresses, the user or an administrator may set up forwarding from these addresses, if still valid, to a single current one, in order to avoid losing messages.
Your idea for a solution
I haven't looked at the source code of maddy. It would be nice to store forward rules in a table such as
(1, "[email protected]", "[email protected]")
(2, "[email protected]", "[email protected]")
(3, "[email protected]", "[email protected]")
and so when a mail is received the To header would be checked against "[email protected]" and automatically forwarded to "[email protected]", "[email protected]" and "[email protected]". The table could be altered (and reloaded?) via the command line or other mechanisms.
I'm not sure how difficult would that be.
- I'm willing to help with the implementation