[Gllug] Web interface to mail forwarding

[Jason Clifford]

On 15 Aug 2002, Mike Brodbelt wrote:

> I'd like to be able to give the users the ability to change the
> forwarding destination of these addresses, via a web interface. Short of
> the obvious security nightmare involved in allowing the web server to
> write to the virtusertable, how do other people cope with this sort of
> requirement. Is there a sensible way to have sendmail populate the
> virtusertable from a MySQL database or something similar?

Personally I'd write a perl CGI using mysql as data store to handle the 
user interface and a separate perl script running cron cron to handle the 
actual management of the virtusertable file.

It should not take more than an hour or two to write such a system in 
a fairly secure manner this way.

If you were using postfix you could run the whole shebang from the mysql 
data store removing the need for the second script. There are also patches 
available for sendmail to allow for mysql based maps however I've not used 
them.

Jason Clifford
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