email alias to a program?

[baumer1122]

I am setting up Dada mail and want to use the group mail function. Can we do that? If so how?
from the dada mail site: http://mojo.skazat.com/support/docum...a_send.pl.html

Before you go right into all of this, it might be a good idea to ask your system administrator if this is actually possible. You need to ask them if you are able to set up email addresses that alias to a file. You may not be able to. If you're server is using Sendmail, which is a very popular Mail User Agent, be aware that Sendmail can be configured to disallow mail aliasing to a program.

[Elite]

i take it we're talking piping the email?

I haven't tried this but this should work:

Set up an email forwarder to:

|/path/to/script/

(e.g |/home/USERNAME/publc_html/) - of course changing USERNAME to your account user name

See: http://www.cpanelfaq.com/003001/7.html

HTH

Nick

[-Oz-]

This may help:

http://forums.dathorn.com/showthread.php?t=1327&highlight=pipe+email

[sdjl]

Just a note on the above URL, i'm still unable to get this working on cPanel 21, so it's either something with what i'm doing or it's entirely dependant on the server setup.

David

[james]

I may be wrong, but from memory you need to enclose the |/.../../ in quotes (").

James