Topic: How do I change a forward address by using a script?

[egerards]

The email for one the accounts on my SME server needs to be forwarded to a weekly changing email address. One of the ways to do this would be to adjust the forward address in the server manager, however preferably I would like to do this via a script that runs on a weekly basis.

Eventually the file ~$USER/.procmailrc needs to be adjusted, but to do it the 'SME way', I suppose the first step would be to make a change in the accounts database:

# db accounts setprop <AccountName> ForwardAddress <email@address.com>

Now I assume the second and last step would be to implement the account database change by calling an SME specific script that will regenerate the .procmailrc file from the account that needs to changed.

Is this the way to go and if so, what would step 2 exactly be?

[janet]

egerards

db accounts setprop <AccountName> ForwardAddress <email@address.com>[/tt]
Now I assume the second and last step would be to implement the account database change by calling an SME specific script that will regenerate the .procmailrc file from the account that needs to changed.
Is this the way to go and if so, what would step 2 exactly be?

db accounts setprop username ForwardAddress emailaddress
followed by
signal-event user-modify username

You can see all the events in
/etc/e-smith/events

If unsure, make the required change to a user in server manager, then examine the messages log file to see what the system does when it automatically makes the change for you. Then duplicate those actions/events in your script.

[cactus]

The email for one the accounts on my SME server needs to be forwarded to a weekly changing email address. One of the ways to do this would be to adjust the forward address in the server manager, however preferably I would like to do this via a script that runs on a weekly basis.

Eventually the file ~$USER/.procmailrc needs to be adjusted, but to do it the 'SME way', I suppose the first step would be to make a change in the accounts database:

# db accounts setprop <AccountName> ForwardAddress <email@address.com>

Now I assume the second and last step would be to implement the account database change by calling an SME specific script that will regenerate the .procmailrc file from the account that needs to changed.

Is this the way to go and if so, what would step 2 exactly be?

Do not use the brackets, perhaps you need to surround the e-mailaddress with double quotes ("), I guess this should do the trick:

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db accounts accountname setprop ForwardAddress email@domain.extension
signal-event user-modify accountname

[egerards]

Do not use the brackets, perhaps you need to surround the e-mailaddress with double quotes ("), I guess this should do the trick:

The brackets were just there to indicate that a AccountName has to be specified and also an email address. Of course the brackets need to be left out when entering the final command...

Back on topic: 'signal-event usermodify accountname' does the job. There was just one thing I initially forgot when I tried to make this work. I forgot to set EmailForward (visible by 'db accounts getprop accountname EmailForward') from 'local' to 'forward', however when I corrected this it finally worked.

Thanks for the feed back!