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01-27-2010

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PHP script to modify .forward files

Hi. I've been racking my brain on a project I've been working on for work, and hope someone here might be of assistance. Basically I'm trying to create dynamically generated .forward files for users/aliases on my email server. The intent is for these files to be generated automatically any time there is a personnel change at the company.

For example, I have a 'sales' email account setup that acts to forward any emails sent to it to all the actual staff emails listed in my mySQL database as part of the sales group. We have a web interface for modifying/assigning such groups to staff members, and this info is stored in the database.

What I'm trying to figure out is, once an assignment is made through this interface, how can I automatically update the .forward files through PHP telling the server to update the .forward files. It seems the only way to do this is to be running as root, but from what I gather, it's a security risk to gain root access in the PHP script itself. Ideally the script would just somehow signal root to update the .forward files for the appropriate email accounts. Rather than have a cron job create these .forward files at set intervals, I'd rather the changes be made instantaneously any time the .forward files need to be updated. Any ideas?

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SEND-REMINDERS(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 SEND-REMINDERS(1)

NAME

       Send-reminders - send email reminders for special occasions

SYNOPSIS

       Send emails reminders set by users for special occasions.

DESCRIPTION

       Email-reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email.	Possible events include birthdays, anniversaries
       and yearly events.  Reminders can be sent on the day of the event and a few days beforehand.

       This script is meant to be invoked everyday by a cron job.  It mails the actual reminders out.

       When run by the root user, it processes all of the spooled reminders.  When run by a specific user, it only processes reminders set by that
       user.

OPTIONS

       --help
	     Displays basic usage message.

       --simulate
	     Does not actually send any emails out.

       --verbose
	     Prints out information about what the program is doing, including the full emails being sent out.

       --version
	     Displays the version number.

FILES

       ~/.email-reminders, /etc/email-reminder.conf

AUTHOR

       Francois Marier <francois@email-reminder.org.nz>

SEE ALSO

       email-reminder-editor, collect-reminders

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2004-2010 by Francois Marier

       Email-Reminder is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       Email-Reminder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Email-Reminder; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
       Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-28							 SEND-REMINDERS(1)