Forward

Forward is an archive containing a set of routines to allow Newsbase to post using a variety of Mail-Forwarding addresses.

A short while ago, I was given an email address of <tap@lspace.org> and the mail for this is forwarded to my Demon Internet account. The problem with configuring Newsbase to use this address meant that I couldn't have any other users having Demon addresses (as far as I could see).

So, I wrote a couple of short routines which would allow me to post from user 'tap' as <tap@lspace.org>, and all other users would post from their normal '<user@afawcett.demon.co.uk>' addresses.

Then the fun started...

All of a sudden, I found myself needing another mail-forwarding address at L-Space. The routine was soon altered to allow this to post as well, but when I got a POP3 mailbox elsewhere the routine began to get a bit silly. So, I re-coded it all to allow any of Newsbase's users to have the option of posting from an alternate address, and these are the latest incarnation of the routines.

They have been tested using the Termite transports for Newsbase, and now the !POP/!SMTP transports as well. There's no real reason why they can't be modified to work with other transports. Also, they are only likely to work with version 0.56 of Newsbase onwards.

NB: These routines are provided for people with Mail-Forwarding addresses, and are definitely NOT intended for abuse!

Latest News! As of version 0.57g of Newsbase, these routines have been incorporated into the main code. You'll need version 0.28 or later of Messenger to work properly with them, but the routines here might work with later versions if you don't like Messenger.

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Page last modified on October 16 2018 09:20:20 by Andy Fawcett.